How do I Export to Cordova Properly

I have a game that when I export from Intel XDK to Android via Cordova, the performance completely dies.

(Makes my tablet a hot laggy mess).

I use the same app as an HTML web app, and I can play it from a URL perfectly.

Any ideas what might be causing this and how to fix it?

in the XDK are you building with Crosswalk or the ANdroid option. if using Crosswalk there is currently some performance issues for some projects with crosswalk 10,11 and 12

I have a plugin that won't use Crosswalk, so I'm avoiding crosswalk.

well then there is not really any way to improve you performance unless you don't use the xdk as the android option in the xdk is outdated

I think it must be a bug, as there is very little happening on the layout, but i'll try some reading too.