"Android can never be as smooth as iOS" myth busted
0. phoneArena posted on 25 Jan 2012, 05:14
Two months ago, a Google intern kicked off a discussion about why Android is often laggy: a sore point in the hearts of Android fans, and gave what seemed like a pretty legitimate explanation…
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1. Birds posted on 25 Jan 2012, 05:20 27
FINALLY THE TRUTH COMES TO LIGHT!!!!!!!!! MUCHOS GRACIAS PHONEARENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. protozeloz posted on 25 Jan 2012, 05:39 20
Duh. And mostly from people on the other side, they had to prove him wrong now I can continue saying that Android will keep growing in terms of look quality and performance
39. JonGarrett posted on 25 Jan 2012, 11:45 7
you will NEVER find this kind of story on any apple fan site. they love to spread lies and misinformation about Android when 9 times out of 10, they've never used an Android device save for a broken piece of equipemnt you typically find at Best Buy.
13. tahnik posted on 25 Jan 2012, 07:50 10
Ya...it's right...Our windows sometimes lags...Don't they?
iOS is very good i have to admit though...
But Android gave us the freedom....It gave us the capability to customize the phone as we want...
In iOS you are only able to do what your OS choose you to do...But in android you choose what your OS will do....:)
22. asimo posted on 25 Jan 2012, 08:41 6
yeah on ios you cannot not ask too much to the system, so it *never* lags... In fact it's your BRAIN that slows down, not ios that's smooth!
(this one was easy sorry)
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45. kgdadon posted on 25 Jan 2012, 14:02 0
YOU my friend hit it on the head with a sledge HAMMER !!! good post!
64. steve19800 posted on 31 Dec 2012, 16:35 0
That's probably the reason why Android prones to lag and less smooth. There are too many 'personality' to test.
2. medalaster01 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 05:36 14
"It’s because on iOS all UI rendering occurs in a dedicated UI thread with real-time priority. On the other hand, Android follows the traditional PC model of rendering occurring on the main thread with normal priority."
said by jay freeman's which means android acts like windows on desktop and ios a more mobile oriented software.
one more reason to stay Android.
14. rcrider4 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 07:51 5
That was the quote from the intern that Jay Freeman was refuting. It is not his own statement. Pay closer attention and you would have seen the quotes around that statement.
17. kylie posted on 25 Jan 2012, 08:22 1
so you dont want mobile os in mobile,you want non-mobile os on your mobile
59. kylie posted on 26 Jan 2012, 08:36 0
then why do you make the wrong choice. Buy a windows phone or an iphone.
62. thebikerboi2 posted on 27 Jan 2012, 04:50 0
tht depends, personaly i dont think smartphones are ready to handle a desktop style OS, simply not powerful enough although they are getting more powerful. plus you will never escape the fact that, the OS will always be orintated around the device.
12. andro. posted on 25 Jan 2012, 07:37 3
Windows is indeed the smoothest but the menu ui block styling is akin to that of a the commadore 64 era and as so the processors don't need to break a sweat
51. BattleBrat posted on 25 Jan 2012, 21:13 2
Yes, you are right, WP is the smoothest I had the TITAN and a 4S side by side, the Titan is the smoothest, I own a RAZR, and it is pretty smooth for Android, I would like to see what my RAZR will do on ICS....
7. GPFboyJS posted on 25 Jan 2012, 06:16 6
Sorry to say but both Android and iOS lag in some areas. I have friends with the latest iPhone 4s and myself running the latest Android phone.
There are areas that the Android is substantially faster in rendering and others that the iOS device is faster.
Ultimately it is the job of the App Developer to make the code of their application as efficient and optimized as possible. The OS is just the canvas.
8. nwright94 (unregistered) posted on 25 Jan 2012, 06:20 6
Maybe other people have good luck with their Android handsets, but I haven't owned a smooth Android handset yet. My old Atrix on dual core being the laggiest. I understand thats probably because it was on froyo before I returned it for a windows phone. Now as for iPhone, mine probably lagged just as much as my old backflip. It was rooted so it wasn't the laggiest, but anyone whose owned a backflip understands what I mean. Now if you want smooth, get a windows phone.
9. c.hack posted on 25 Jan 2012, 06:42 4
I was going to respond on my Android tablet, but the keyboard was too laggy to type even a sentence and then it locked up. Yeah, Android's great - if you like to pay to debug Google's beta software. I use both Apple (original iPad and 4s) and Android (DX2 and A500 both dual core). Android cannot compete in responsiveness and smoothness with Apple. Even the dual core A500 is a laggy embarrassment compared to the first gen iPad.
24. iamcc posted on 25 Jan 2012, 08:59 5
You have the worst luck with stuff dude... I use my GT10.1 to post on PhoneArena several times a day without issue...
31. Sniggly posted on 25 Jan 2012, 10:15 3
Part of your problem is the DROID X2. Sure, it's dual core, but it also only has 512 megs of RAM. My Atrix, however, is pretty damn smooth, or at least it is when I don't have fifteen processes running in the background. Time to uninstall those Glu games!
41. ZayZay posted on 25 Jan 2012, 12:24 5
Do you sound this stupid in person too, or is it just on the internet?
If you feel and hate android and it's laggyness so much, why do you have an android tab?
Is your beloved Apple to expensive for you?
You're funny because you are always saying "Well my friend has an android and it..." or "Well I had an android and it had this problem...?
You are the replica of the annoying apple fanboy the commercials display.
Good luck in life if you act like this all the time.
10. redmd posted on 25 Jan 2012, 06:51 12
I would rather have this "lag" than not having Bluetooth file transfer or microsd slot or USB mass storage.
32. protozeloz posted on 25 Jan 2012, 10:34 1
not at all android may be not as smooth as iOS but this shows it could change android keeps getting better and better and anyone with 4.0 can tell you that
63. thebikerboi2 posted on 27 Jan 2012, 04:54 0
for saying that, you just made yourself a simple minded person. not all ios users a the dumb Ish33p or the zombies that android fans proclaim.
19. gotti88 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 08:38 3
cupertino heart with chinese parts. built by the poor but designed by the smart.
20. remixfa posted on 25 Jan 2012, 08:40 5
I am on an, unofficial ICS rom on an unsupported phone that is only single cow andit has never run more smoothly. What's lag?
27. remixfa posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:35 4
lol.. i was typing and talking and didnt proof read. DOH. :)
"I am on an unofficial ICS rom... on an unsupported phone that is only a single core, and it has never run more smoothly. Whats lag?"
:)
28. kylie posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:37 2
u will know about lagging when you use windows phone and iOS
57. vmaster posted on 26 Jan 2012, 01:55 2
Just useless statement, it's like saying "if you wanna see a slow animal, check out a tiger or a cheetah". I'm an android user, but it's obvious to any idiot who will use all three OS's that windows and iOS run smoother with less lags, although i'm not saying that android sucks. I think android constantly keeps getting better, but don't make bogus claims when facts prove otherwise.
25. speckledapple posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:19 1
I think I would have to agree with the last guy the most as I have used both Android and iOS and certain apps are surely more fluid than others. It does come down to the developer and how they optimize their code for use. I can think of one example, Tasks n Todos is an amazing app for Android and is about as smooth of an experience as you can get. It doesnt stutter or suffer from any lag and it runs well on my thunderbolt. Its about the code not the OS people.
26. downphoenix posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:32 3
that munn guy was probably paid off by Apple to say what he said.
58. vmaster posted on 26 Jan 2012, 02:01 0
Disagree. I've been reading articles here for the past half a year, and PA are not biased about a particular OS, but are rather descriptive about each one, and almost always they don't make a final opinion about a particular product/OS/etc but rather leave it up to personal opinion of users.
30. Scott_H posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:51 0
Honestly, my Galaxy Nexus is every bit as smooth as my iPod touch (neither are perfectly smooth, and both pause every once in a while). I do think iPad's have been clearly superior to Honeycomb tablets in terms on interactivity, but moving to 4.0 and away from Tegra 2 should fix that.
Really, WP7 is the smoothest mobile OS I've used - if people really care more about UI smoothness than anything else they should check that out first. But in reality there are lots of ways to prioritize features in a mobile platform, and "smoothness" can be higher or lower on that list for different people.
34. bucky posted on 25 Jan 2012, 10:49 0
the fact that you said you NEXUS is smooth tells me to stop reading right there.
33. xx6static9xx posted on 25 Jan 2012, 10:48 3
I personally think the main reason android lags so bad is because it has terrible memory leaks and leaves too many apps running in the background. You will find that without a built in task manager too many apps will be running at any giving time and drain all of your system memory. the average Android phone has 512 MB of system ram, upon booting up you will notice you will only have Aprox 260 MB free and that's not nearly enough given the amount of multi tasking users are trying to do without killing all the apps they are running. Upon booting iOS with the same 512 MB system memory you will notice you will be closer too 360 MB of system ram and iOS multi tasking just seem more seamless with the ability too easily kill apps without the need for a third party task manager.
Now on my XOOM Tablet I have 1 GB of system memory and things seem to run with a much better overall experience. I would complain about the memory leakage and overall lack of resource management without third party apps. So In my conclusion it all comes back too poor execution with bad memory management that will ultimately lead too a bad experience that could easily be fixed with some standardized management utilities that could run native within the OS its self.
Source : User who actually uses these devices and doesn't sit at a fancy desk processing number all day and lost touch with reality!
35. Evil_SaNz posted on 25 Jan 2012, 11:05 2
I have here a 3gs ios5 and a galaxy s2 2.3.5. If this article was correct the samsung should lag indifferently to hardware and the iphone should be smoother with bad hardware.
I'm sorry but the iphone 3gs lags more. Try it by yourself. So hardware is a factor. We all know that android is a more complex os desktop wise so will be always resource hungry, but I don't think will always lag - I can't see any hiccups on a stock sgs2 if you leave out widgets and animated wallpapers (same as ios). Just lacks some fps for screen transitions that should be boosted with ics.
I'm sick of these smoothness tales. Maybe will be never smooth as ios but human eye won't see the difference. I bet in 2050 iphones will still have a 4x4 icon grid and ppl will still use default ringtones instead using what they prefer.
42. jove39 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 12:32 1
Yes hardware is a major factor...GNex shows lag with live wallpaper...but thats due to weak gpu...compare SGX543MP2 vs PowerVR SGX540
37. jove39 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 11:13 0
Well...I have used iphone4 and Galaxy S (vibrant) both...ios for most part is smooth...but it does lag and hangs rately...on the other hand...Android shows frequent lag...and rarely hangs...however...with voodoo kernel and ext4 based filesystem...it works just fine...smooth :)
40. bbblader posted on 25 Jan 2012, 11:58 0
so finally someone else than mythbusters busted this myth?
46. 530gemini posted on 25 Jan 2012, 15:34 0
Oh well. Obviously, no one is really certain of what they're talking about. What a bunch of circus clowns.
I guess it's better to just speak for yourself. And as for me, although there are times that my ipad and iphone lags, overall, it offers a smooth experience. I have tried several android devices at stores, and their responsiveness just do not cut it for me. It's not as naturally responsive as idevices are. I guess that's the key to the idevice's smoothness. It feels more natural. But to each his own. If android works better for you, then by all means, keep your android device :)
52. BattleBrat posted on 25 Jan 2012, 21:19 0
This is probably the most logical post i've ever seen you put up.
47. gdzjuba posted on 25 Jan 2012, 18:07 2
I have Galaxy Nexus for a month now. While ICS itself looks to me just a bit slower than iOS5 on iPhone 4s, MOST of apps I run on Nexus are somewhat slow, but I have not ever seen UI lags on iPhone 4. For example Engadget app news list scrolling is very stuttery/laggy on Nexus; the same goes to list in NPR news app. On iOS the same apps are just fine.
48. Johnny_Mnemonic posted on 25 Jan 2012, 19:12 0
Gdzjuba So your saying is iPhone never lags. Yea right !!!
60. datsyuk posted on 26 Jan 2012, 12:08 0
Go to developer options and enable force gpu rendering. Scrolling problem solved in apps like Facebook and engadget before they're updated.
49. lukasound posted on 25 Jan 2012, 20:18 1
Rendering on iPhone? What is there to render? Just a bunch of icons overlayed on a static background...
Plus, no real multitasking to hog the resources...
Of course it doesn't lag! There is nothing there to lag!
50. belovedson posted on 25 Jan 2012, 20:58 0
its unfortunate most of the itards will not read this article and will continue to argue that android phones are laggy, slow, improperly coded, etc.
53. bucky posted on 26 Jan 2012, 00:09 0
unfortunately, too many are slow and laggy-even alot of the new ones from 2011.
not itards, just average consumer with first impressions.
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