High Performance Android Apps

Sillars, Doug

ISBN 10: 1491912510 / ISBN 13: 9781491912515

Verlag: O'Reilly Media, 2015

Beschreibung

Unique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you'll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early. Customers are finally realizing that apps have a major role in the performance of their Android devices. Author Doug Sillars not only shows you how to use Android-specific testing tools from companies including Google, Qualcomm, and ATandT, but also helps you explore potential remedies. You'll discover ways to build apps that run well on all 19,000 Android device types in use.Understand how performance issues affect app sales and retention Build an Android device lab to maximize UI, functional, and performance testing Improve the way your app interacts with device hardware Optimize your UI for fast rendering, scrolling, and animations Track down memory leaks and CPU issues that affect performance Upgrade communications with the server, and learn how your app performs on slower networks Apply Real User Monitoring (RUM) to ensure that every device is delivering the optimal user experience.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781491912515

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: High Performance Android Apps
• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1491912510
• ISBN-13: 9781491912515
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Unique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you'll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early.

Customers are finally realizing that apps have a major role in the performance of their Android devices. Author Doug Sillars not only shows you how to use Android-specific testing tools from companies including Google, Qualcomm, and AT&T, but also helps you explore potential remedies. You'll discover ways to build apps that run well on all 19,000 Android device types in use.

• Understand how performance issues affect app sales and retention
• Build an Android device lab to maximize UI, functional, and performance testing
• Improve the way your app interacts with device hardware
• Optimize your UI for fast rendering, scrolling, and animations
• Track down memory leaks and CPU issues that affect performance
• Upgrade communications with the server, and learn how your app performs on slower networks
• Apply Real User Monitoring (RUM) to ensure that every device is delivering the optimal user experience

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Doug Sillars is the performance outreach lead at the AT&T Developer Program. He has helped thousands of mobile developers apply performance best practices to applications. The tools and best practices developed at AT&T help developers make mobile apps run faster, use less data and less battery. He lives on an island Washington State with his wife, where they homeschool their 3 children.