Android Performance Optimization Guide

Android provides developers and power users incredible freedom, but with that freedom comes the risk of poor optimization. Here is how I set up Android for maximum responsiveness.

1. Disabling Unnecessary Background Limits

Modern Android is aggressive with battery management. But if you have a device with 12GB+ of RAM, suspending apps is actively harming your performance as the CPU has to constantly fetch them from storage instead of keeping them in memory.

Go to Developer Options -> Suspend execution for cached apps -> Select Disabled.

2. Animation Scaling

The oldest trick in the book, yet the most effective.

1. Window animation scale: 0.5x
2. Transition animation scale: 0.5x
3. Animator duration scale: 0.5x

3. Force MSAA

In developer options, forcing 4x MSAA forces the GPU to render OpenGL ES 2.0 apps with higher precision. It consumes slightly more battery but resolves micro-stutters in older legacy applications.