App Launch time & Activity creation (Android Performance Patterns Season 6 Ep. 2)

As developers, there’s nothing we like more than an amazing Activity that delights and entertains our users. But sadly initializing all the subsystems, resources, and layouts to provide that experience takes a bit of time and memory, meaning the users will have to wait for their transcendent experience. As such one of the most important things you can do for the health and performance perception of your application, is optimizing the performance of loading your activities.

In this video Colt McAnlis talks about the some of the most common problems in activity loading, and what tools you can use to track down the issues.