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iOS used to be hyper memory efficient. Somewhere along the line, that is no longer the case. The same with App responsiveness as well. With Apps size increasing
by ksec 1y ago
iOS used to be hyper memory efficient. Somewhere along the line, that is no longer the case. The same with App responsiveness as well. With Apps size increasing every year.
- epistasis 1y agoThe idea of showing a splash screen with the last app contents while the app loaded was a good idea on slower hardware. Now that we have faster hardware with more memory, developers use frameworks which no longer load fast enough, so we have the splash screen with the last app state, followed by a complete load of up of UI from the ground up with something else. And the splash screen becomes actively deceptive.
- JamesSwift 1y agoIn many ways, images are a big reason why things naturally become inefficient. We are up to a 3x scale factor now and so just by virtue of the higher resolution display we are at 3x the pixels for a given image at a given display size. And apps are much more image heavy now with network/cpu speeds improving to support real time image loading/decoding.
- supertrope 1y agoAt least with storage bloated apps show at the top of the "iPhone Storage" list and are at greater risk of the user tapping [Delete App]. There's no UI interface highlighting memory hogs.
- Someone 1y agoFor developers, the choice used to be between a memory efficient application or no application at all. Nowadays, there’s a third option “not as memory efficient as possible, but tomorrow instead of next month/quarter, and you won’t have to hire and pay experts to tune things” For many developers, the choice between those three is easy.
- stalfosknight 1y agoGross.