[mono-android] Test on Real Device before paying for a licence?

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Nov 25, 2011, at 6:46 AM, was wrote:
> Well, my app takes 6 secs to start up on my ZTC San Francisco.

How long does a Release build of HelloWorld [0] take to launch for you? This is the minimum startup time you can expect to see.

For example, on my Nexus One, Mono for Android 1.2:

	I/ActivityManager(   96): Start proc mono.samples.helloworld for activity mono.samples.helloworld/.HelloAndroid: pid=11120 uid=10064 gids={}
	I/ActivityManager(   96): Displayed mono.samples.helloworld/.HelloAndroid: +2s451ms

So ~2.5s to start.

As a teaser, the next release of Mono for Android:

	I/ActivityManager( 96): Start proc mono.samples.helloworld for activity mono.samples.helloworld/.HelloAndroid: pid=11516 uid=10064 gids={} 
	I/ActivityManager(   96): Displayed mono.samples.helloworld/.HelloAndroid: +1s141ms

~1.2s to start, or less than half the time.

 - Jon

[0] https://github.com/xamarin/monodroid-samples/tree/master/HelloWorld