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hudson42
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October 9, 2013
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Air for Android performance very poor on Galaxy Tab 3, 10.1

  • October 9, 2013
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We have an air for mobile app in the iOS app store, and we are currently working on the Android side and have been running into some performance issues. By far the worst and most surprising issue is the performance of our app on the Galaxy Tab 3, 10.1 tablet. I also have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 first generation, and it performs significantly better than the 3 with our app, some sequences take twice as long to render on the 3 than the 1. This is the exact same APK installed on both. This APK was built with Air 3.9 beta, but I also made a build with 3.8 with the same performance results.

We are using GPU mode, which performs better than either direct or CPU.

The same results were observed with both debug and non-debug builds.

Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing with the GT3? Is it possible that this could be improved on the Air side somehow? Any suggestions for something to disable in the OS of the GT3 that might help? I know Samsung has layered on their custom skin on the Android 4.2.2 os that is on the tablet

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions regarding this issue.

Regards,

Hudson Ansley

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    foxy12
    foxy12
    Participant
    June 20, 2014

    Hi,I am having a big problem getting adobe air on my galaxy tab 3,I play a game called farmerama and all I keep getting is that I must have Adobe air and every time I install it , it comes back with error 24th can you help me please because I am getting very frustrated now.

    MJD1981
    MJD1981
    Inspiring
    December 27, 2013

    I too just made the mistake of buying a Samsung tablet for testing AIR apps. Is there anything that can be done to improve performance? I have some users that will complain about this too.

    Pahup
    Adobe Employee
    Pahup
    Adobe Employee
    March 18, 2014

    Hi All,

    Thanks for reporting the issue. Adobe AIR Runtime and applications built using AIR are ARMv7 based binaries and every Android device should honor the Filters on Google play including application architecture. For example – Lava Xolo, which is an Intel device doesn’t show up Adobe AIR and AIR based applications in Google Play. However, it looks like Intel based Samsung Tab 3 doesn’t respect this filtering and the AIR application experiences performance related issues on execution. By the time, we investigate the issue, developers are suggested to try out the capabilities based device filtering on their Google Developer console to exclude a particular device. Please follow Capabilities targeting section @ http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/about/distribution.html

    Thanks

    Adobe AIR Team

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    Anonymous
    March 27, 2014

    how about make AIR compatible with android x86 device instead of hard labor just for hiding AIR to the samsung galaxy tab 3 users ?

    the feature got more than an hunderd votes on the bugtracker why don't just compile the already exist x86 based AIR for windows to android ?

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    lexchoi
    Participant
    October 20, 2013

    The reason is because Galaxy Tab 3 is not ARM based

    but it's based on Intel Atom Z2560 SOC, which is x86.

    This makes all AIR apps run on sort of emulation mode.

    (AIR only supports ARM-core.)

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    Flexicious
    Participating Frequently
    October 30, 2013

    So we can also confirm that we're getting the same exact behavior on Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. Tab 2 works much better, and iPad is blazing fast. So now that we have a pretty good idea of what the issue is, what are our options? Did anyone hear from Adobe about what their opinion is? Is better support for x86 anywhere on the roadmap?

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    Anonymous
    December 3, 2013

    Hello,

    I can't get adobe Air working on Galaxy  Tab3. Can you please telle me with wich kernel and Adobe version you get Air working ??

    Thank you very much for this information.

    flashdictionary
    flashdictionary
    Inspiring
    October 16, 2013

    Yes the Adobe AIR runtime executes so slow on the Galaxy Tab 3. We have found it to be many times slower than other Android devices such as HTC 4-core, and Galaxy S phone.

    At first I thought that the video buffering was not working properly in AIR 3.9 on the Galaxy Tab 3, but now we have determined that AIR just runs so slow that the video gets so far out of sync.

    Look at my bug report here, and vote on it to try to help Adobe see that they need to look at the Galaxy Tab 3.

    https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3648268

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    BorrelWORST
    Participant
    October 12, 2013

    Hi Hudson,

    I've noticed that (contorary to other devices) CPU renderning mode seems to perform best here.

    Have you tried this?

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    hudson42Author
    Participating Frequently
    October 13, 2013

    thanks for the reply. Yes, CPU mode is even worse for our app on this device. GPU mode is the best, but as I indecated, suprisingly poor in comparison to the first generation device

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