A mobile apps performance is an overlooked and improperly-defined mobile project requirement but how do you define it? To be more specific, how is it possible to develop a high-performance mobile enterprise application?
An apps performance is measured on the basis of its
1.Loading and execution time, and
2.Responsiveness and Smoothness of User Interactions.
In this post, we shall focus on Apache Cordova hybrid mobile app- one of the most popular choices for mobile enterprise regardless to any industry.
Improve the App Loading Speed
•Minimum Network Usage: In general, a mobile enterprise application, purely offline, is used to access server data or services because of its relatively slow and unstable network speed. Minimize network requests by cache static resources in your application or by preloading the required information when your application starts can certainly improve the loading speed.
•Minimize The Number Of Requests: With Cordova plug-ins, it is possible to providing native access to the mobile applications. Perhaps, you will need to consider storing the content in the native layer and returning the content key back to the web tier. This way you would be able to retrieve the data by the key across the web and Cordova tiers.
Responsiveness and Smoothness of User Interactions
•Leverage hardware-accelerated CSS: By default, mobile applications of these days are known for their transition effects and animation due to the "education" of native user experience. The trick here is to delegate unnecessary Document Object Model depth of elements that are going to be transitioned and animated.
•Keep It Simple: Despite the fact that CSS3 modules help us easily achieve wonderful styles and effects anything excessive actually kill the image performance of your application. Whilst designers keep on adding transparency and shadows to elements, excessive use of hardware acceleration can cause memory swapping, eventually affecting performance. So, better stay simple in graphics and style.
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