Brad Fitzpatrick: Writing zippy Android apps

Itt

• What is an ANR? Why do you see them?

• Quantifying responsiveness: “jank”

• Android SDK features to use to avoid jankiness & ANRs

• Numbers to know

• War stories from optimizing Froyo (2.2)

• New performance instrumentation available in Froyo

"Come hear tips & war stories on making fast, responsive (a.k.a. "non-janky") Android apps. No more ANRs! Eliminate event loop stalls! Fast start-ups! Optimized database queries with minimal I/O! Also, learn about the tools and techniques we use to find performance problems across the system and hear what's coming in the future."