Android ART - Who's using it?

[Muaaz]

While still in experimental stages, Google released Android ART on it's latest Nexus 5. I opened up Youtube last night to see comparisons between ART and Dalvik (JIT) in order to get an idea of the difference in performance. Since Nexus 5 features a Snapdragon 800 processor, the difference between app loading times and performance on both compilers was very minimal.

On my good old Galaxy S2, I flashed a custom ROM a couple of days ago which had the option for using ART deep in the Developer Options.
I thought I'd see how ART vs. Dalvik fares on old hardware. I was pleasantly surprised to see a great performance improvement on my phone. Apps are loading up much faster the phone is markedly responsive overall.

Haven't tested battery timings yet, though ART claims to improve battery usage as well.

Is anyone else ART? I'm looking at non-Nexus5 owners. Please post your impressions.

 

[Baghi]

Mine has the option to chose runtime but I'm afraid things like Xposed aren't yet compatible with ART?

 

[crysis2]

Most of the apps are not compatible with art

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[huzaifa1000]

Used it on nexus 7 2 couple of days ago since it is in experimental stage so no difference in performance and also it have compatible issues with most apps but in future it will be a great feature of android.

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[Optimus]

Mine has the option to chose runtime but I'm afraid things like Xposed aren't yet compatible with ART?

Yep, sadly Xposed doesn't support it yet.

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I've been using it ever since I flashed a custom 4.4.2 on my S III, and I've seen a substantial amount of performance boost, phone boots up faster, it's responsive, and yes, it does give a better battery life. I hope they continue ART and introduce it to more devices.

 

[ASKnASK]

Mine has the option to chose runtime but I'm afraid things like Xposed aren't yet compatible with ART?

Using it on my Moto G. Works fine.

 

[Baghi]

Using it on my Moto G. Works fine.

Great. Does it also improve benchmark numbers as well? Because ever since I started using 4.4.2 I never felt any delays even though my GPE ROM uses ext4 partition instead of the f2fs which is slightly faster I believe (?).

 

[ASKnASK]

Great. Does it also improve benchmark numbers as well? Because ever since I started using 4.4.2 I never felt any delays even though my GPE ROM uses ext4 partition instead of the f2fs which is slightly faster I believe (?).

In all my time using Android, I don't think I've EVER run any benchmarking app

 

[Baghi]

In all my time using Android, I don't think I've EVER run any benchmarking app

Tang. Then how do you spot the difference because the KitKat on a 1GB RAM phone is already blazing phast even on Dalvik!

 

[Juste]

I am just enjoying Dalvik

 

[ahmed123004]

Im using it on S5 works a bit less lagy then Dalvik...only a handful apps r not supported i only experienced facebook messenger caused system failure thrice..rest its great....improved stability by a long shot.

S5 G900H

 

[ahmed123004]

im using it on s5 works a bit less lagy then dalvik...only a handful apps r not supported i only experienced facebook messenger caused system failure thrice..rest its great....
btw it improved stability aswell....by a great deal.
s5 g900h

s5 g900h

 

[Ahmed Zamir]

I used it on my LG E970 CM11 nightly. Didn't notice any difference. Even benchmark scores were almost equal.

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[Yasir Nadeem]

trying it now on e975

 

[ahmed123004]

trying it now on e975

Enjoy..i used it fr 2 weeks than it started showin errors and abrupt mis-communication between touch and response than i changed back to Dalwik..

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