Android UI Performance

Hi

Were currently working on a UI heavy game for mobile. We get a solid 60fps on an iphone4s and above but on 2 comparable android devices (nexus 7 1st Gen and Moto G 2nd Gen) we get between 20 and 35 fps. I've seen a few posts from people having similar problems but have yet to see any solid solutions. Has anyone else had the same experience or know of a fix? We've tried building using both 5.2 and 5.3 with the same result.

Cheers

 

Edit -> Project Settings -> Quality... Without details I can say only that

 

The solution for me was switching from deferred to forward rendering.

 

Thanks for the reply Deepscorn

I've attached a screenshot from the editor showing the quality and the basic hierarchy of one of the screens, this is a good 60fps on iphone4s 25-35fps on the android devices we've tested. You guys might spot something we haven't.

Cheers

 

Thanks DaDonik, we are using Forward rendering, was there anything else you did you can remember?

Thanks

 

Nope, sorry. All i did was changing to forward rendering.

Your UI doesn't seem too heavy to me...
My project too has several canvas elements and i don't have any performance problems.

These are the devices i try my apps on:
- Samsung Galaxy S3
- LG L40
- Nexus 7 (2013)
- Samsung Note 10.1 (2014)

 

Thanks for that DaDonlk!
Just out of curiosity, what version of unity are you using to build?

 

I'm currently using 5.2.1p3

All the Android devices i listed above are running on the latest OS version i can get for each device. I don't have them at hand right now, but i can check it tomorrow if it's of interest.

 

nope, you can't use 5.2.1p3, if you care about performance specially in mobile device. use 5.1.3 or 5.1.4. or you can use 5.3 beta. there were huge performance regression at 5.2. and it hasn't fixed until now.

 

No thats fine DaDonik thanks was just curious. Still trying various things, building with 5.3 hasn't fixed anything unfortunately.