Hi,
I thought app loading time is "unfixable" it takes time to load stuff,
end of story. I also thought that other phones load dialler faster
because they don't actually close it in the first place.
Kind of, but it is always possible to optimize those bottlenecks. The
app always needs to load stuff but that does not mean we can't make that
better.
Not sure about if other platforms have the dialer app always in memory.
But for example Android always has a preloaded skeleton application
(Zygote) that has the
system libraries already loaded (in our case the ui toolkit for example)
and then just needs to load the app specific parts to "become" the
application. This is one direction we currently
investigate.
Another possibility is to make the loading process better. By making
sure the libraries / qml components load faster. This is the other
direction we are also looking into.
So until we have not gone through all possibilties we should not
introduce solutions like preloading full applications.
Cheers,
Benjamin
I am not a coder, but adding option to white-list apps (so everyone
can choose set of favourite apps to white-list) seems like a good
idea. It looks similar to scopes - you select scopes that you always
want accessible.
On top of that - app developers could make some special "white-list
compatibility mode" that keep certain qualities of apps readily
available while muting others - less important.
The function should be optional for sure. Yes as default setting would
be good for general public. Also when you set it as "yes" you should
be allowed to choose the app to be "invisible" in apps preview (to
avoid clutter), so when I want to kill browser I don't have to scroll
through dialler, texts, scopes, music and contacts before I get to
browser. Or at least keep those "yes" apps at the end of the queue. Or
swipe from the right edge twice to get a chance to close those "yes"
apps (quite intuitive because the first swipe would open normal apps,
and the second swipe from same edge would let you edit "privileged" apps).
It's nice to see other people interested in the topic - thank you for
all the comments,
Chris
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