I am not specifically developing for mobile device (I am doing Network Management) and not consider myself guru in the mobile Web apps. But I did pretty good testing regarding performance of my GWT apps on mobile devices to allow our customers use their smart phones for network management. What I found that performance greatly depends on performance of Javascript engine running inside mobile browser. On my Android my alarm management app was running probably with the same performance as on my desktop. No visible performance degradation. On Windows Mobile 6.5 with default "Pocket Explorer" browser my app was just frozen! Only after installing Opera browser it started to run without visible performance problems. Just to let you know that I am using long polling to achieve real time visualization and operators can exchange instant messaging through the same GWT RPC calls. I can recommend to test your app on Android first to see the best performance and then go to other mobile devices
-Sergey -----Original Message----- From: google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of denis56 Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 4:44 PM To: Google Web Toolkit Subject: Re: Recommendations for improving performance of a mobile application Hi, We already do that. Only changed objects are sent over the wire. There is of course question of granularity, but i think we have struck a good balance between complexity and efficiency. Are you also developing for mobile? On 11 Okt., 22:01, "Armishev, Sergey" <sarmis...@idirect.net> wrote: > Regarding slow RPC calls. Just try to send incremental data changes, > only the data that been changed/added/deleted and cache main data on > client. You might have thousands of items but only few of them or > nothing been changed between RPC calls. I usually send full update when > number of changes exceeds certain critical level when cost of update is > higher then full update. Another hint is to change only data that > visible to user. Usually there are not much visible data particularly on > mobile device. > > -Sergey > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of denis56 > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 2:27 PM > To: Google Web Toolkit > Subject: Recommendations for improving performance of a mobile > application > > Hello to everyone, > > We decided to give it a try programming a mobile application with GWT > - frequent RPC updates, very component-oriented and frequently > changing data. At the moment we try to meet bearable performance > benchmarks since current performance is so dismal. To change to a > different page (fully dynamic) takes more than a minute at times ; > ( Clicking on clickable panels, which are present in large quantities > on every page, is also excruciatingly slow. > > I have watched videos from Google I/O Conference 2010 (Architecting > for performance with GWT, GWT's UI overhaul, Faster apps faster) and > tried replacing some of the widgets with UiBinder. This had so far > brought only minimal performance improvements. There are some critical > observations I would like to share and maybe you would have valuable > suggestions > > * One of the things Joel Webber tells is that widgets are slow. > Unfortunately everything is a widget in our app: clickable panels for > selection and HTMLPanels/FlowPanels to layout clickables. There is > very little space to cut off on widget. What would be the most > lightweight component to implement onMouseDown-Event (a Button or > clickable FlowPanel)? Is it worth the effort to replace all HTMLPanel/ > FlowPanel possible with new Cell Widgets (I am thinking about CellList > in particular). Are they plain faster for layouting components? > > * Running Firebug Profiler and Speedtracer shows that PRC requests > take the most time. On page change, for example, an PRC call would > return a rather big list of DTOs - they have hierarchical logical > structure - and each is then injected into corresponding view that > attaches itself to parent view for display. So profiler says that > add()-calls take the most time. But I can hardly imagine a way to get > rid of these add calls because the views have to be attached to the > owning views. Is there a better strategy to display lists of lists of > data? > > * We use tables for layouting and in the process of converting that > into divs, as well as converting syles to eliminate style chaining. > Could that improve performance of mobile browsers significantly? 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