On 2011/02/01 19:45, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > So my questions, regarding the Streak: Is the touch interface as responsive > as Apple's? I played around with some Android tablets last weekend and most > felt kind of jerky when scrolling and zoomimg. Also, it appears that zoom was > only available in certain moments, when the content displayed was 'meant' to > be zoomed, such as pictures, but not when on the OS UI or application UI. Did > you notice that?
That is still Android's achilles heel: it is not as responsive as iOS. I blame Java for most of that, iOS applications are compiled to native machine code. Java is a bad choice for real-time applications, and adding a JIT to Dalvik didn't improve much. Newer Android devices try to make that problem disappear by using faster CPUs, but that is just tinkering with the symptoms. XCSoar is native code, not Java, so it does not suffer from Java's disadvantages. On the other hand, XCSoar may be the most complex Android application that exists so far. Making XCSoar more responsive is one of my big goals, and you may have noticed that version 6 is already a giant leap ahead of the old version 5 (and therefore also LK8000). Still, there is much room for improvement, XCSoar's map renderer is still very clumsy and wastes too much CPU power. We're working on it! Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
