I’m building a mobile game using Expo and React Native. By combining FlatList and React Native’s new architecture with the Hermes JS engine enabled, I get ~120 frames per second performance on my old Android phone, even with long lists of components containing text, images and buttons. I didn’t even know my phone went to 120 fps.
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YouView – Smart TV UI
YouView is a Smart TV service in the UK, which runs on Set Top Boxes and Smart TVs. I worked on the original UI for years and thought I’d share some insights into best practices for building applications on such resource constrained devices.
Optimal scrolling for 2D games or UIs
I recently stumbled upon an old bit of code which demonstrates a technique I created for an efficient scrolling data grid on the YouView TV platform. I call it ‘Blit Scrolling’. Below is a demo of the concept.
Boosting Unity performance on mobile devices
Mobile devices are becoming more and more powerful. However, not all your users will have high-end mobile devices, so you should keep a low-powered device handy for testing the performance of your games.
Here are 10 ways not usually mentioned on how to improve mobile Unity performance. The usual advice (use low-poly models, minimal lights, few effect, etc) is good. But if you still need need to increase performance, try these tricks: Continue reading Boosting Unity performance on mobile devices