Re: Modern browsers on legacy PC's (Split thread from PSU hall of shame)
Exactly so! ART is a big improvement, even if a pre-compiled copy of your app takes up more storage. Storage is cheap, CPU is not. ART is still a compromise though. 7.0 looks promising with its re-profiling/recompile gimmick. Gimmick. Lipstick on a pig.
I would like to see changes to Play Store and the Android presentation layer that allows for native software installs that don't burden the end user with knowing what silicon their device uses. I could provide software that targets a dozen architectures and does things that Java apps can never do - but iOS can, just because iOS & objC are creepy fast.
Some Android software already does what I suggest above e.g., OpenCV Library Manager, which determines the arch, then downloads the NDK based shared library for OpenCV in the native machine code. You can't charge for that trick: Google won't let you charge for apps that download code from anywhere but Google Play Store, but they provide no mechanisms for offering such side-loaded libraries. That needs to change.
Originally posted by goontron
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I would like to see changes to Play Store and the Android presentation layer that allows for native software installs that don't burden the end user with knowing what silicon their device uses. I could provide software that targets a dozen architectures and does things that Java apps can never do - but iOS can, just because iOS & objC are creepy fast.
Some Android software already does what I suggest above e.g., OpenCV Library Manager, which determines the arch, then downloads the NDK based shared library for OpenCV in the native machine code. You can't charge for that trick: Google won't let you charge for apps that download code from anywhere but Google Play Store, but they provide no mechanisms for offering such side-loaded libraries. That needs to change.
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