Performance improvement with Phonegap 2.2

As stated here Apache rewrited from scratch the android javascript to java bridge with a 25x performance increase (!!!) on code execution.

On my Galaxy ACE (800 Mhz single core) the overall performance increase is very high boosting my game (clyde) from 14-15 FPS to 20-21 FPS (a 30-35% increase).

GFX rendering is still not HW accelerated, but this new Js2Java bridge leave a lot of CPU time for software rendering.

This is a good news for those who can't use an accelerated solution like Appmobi or CocoonJS.

Cool can't wait to try it.

Did you publish using their build server? or though your own xcode publish?

I used Eclipse on windows. PG 2.2 is not yet available on PG build servers.

I'm testing just now my game and I don't find any issue with my C2 project. Everything seems to work as expected (accelerometer, audio, custom plugins, custom code called through callJS...)

Interesting, but software renderers are still pretty poor for games. There really needs to be an accelerated solution which is why we still recommend directCanvas or CocoonJS.

I agree with you Ashley. HW acceleration IS the way. But in my case neither Directcanvas nor CocoonJS are ready to run my project, so this is a good way to test my game on a real mobile device with a playable performance while waiting for accelerated wrappers improvements.

Excellent news, I'll take a look and see how it performs. I'm still operating using cordova 1.7.0 as every build after that has some issues with playing sounds. Hopefully 2.2 doesn't have any sound issues.

I migrated my app from 1.7 to 2.2 without issues.

Talking about sounds, BG Music on android doesn't butcher FPS anymore.

So far so good! Didn't play bg music on first boot, but played all sound effects. bg kicked in on second play. Looks less laggy, but I haven't checked fps yet. Thanks for the tip off!!

Knifegrinder Yeah!!! Just embedded FPS text and it's boosted one of my games from 17-21 fps to 22-26 fps, and it looks smoother. Kickass!

...the downside is that when the I close the app the background music keeps on playing so I'll have to build a workaround (or just not have bg music) <img src="smileys/smiley6.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

So are you saying you don't need to use Audio Latency Plugin anymore to get reliable audio playback?

AndyWatson

I don't have this issue. What phone do you have? It's running android 2.x or 4.x?

ArcadEd

I suggest you to keep working with the plugin, basicaly because phonegap native audio player doesn't still support BG music loop. Apache announced a new audio engine in the next release, so it may be worth waiting.

Knifegrinder interesting that all's good with you, seems like it's a fairly isolated problem then. I'm running a Samsung Galaxy S2 with android 2.x, I can check it on an HTC as well, so will do so.