LayoutOptimizer: A layout rendering performance optimizer for Android application

IF 1.5 4区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Science of Computer Programming Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI:10.1016/j.scico.2025.103287

Yue Wu , Zhentao He , Qingnan Wang , Yihui Wang , Huaxiao Liu

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Abstract

The perceived delays experienced by Android application users can have a significant impact on their overall experience. Slow UI rendering is a major factor causing perceived delays. Poorly implemented UI layouts can have a considerable impact on rendering performance. To optimize the rendering performance of a layout, an important way is to solve its hierarchy issues. While there are layout performance analysis tools available, they lack effective solutions for fixing hierarchy issues, which limits their ability to assist developers in resolving such issues. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called LayoutOptimizer, which can automatically identify and solve two common hierarchy issues in Android layouts. The evaluation based on 31 layouts from real-world apps demonstrates that LayoutOptimizer can effectively fix the two common hierarchy issues while ensuring visual consistency.

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Science of Computer Programming 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

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3.80

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0.00%

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审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： Science of Computer Programming is dedicated to the distribution of research results in the areas of software systems development, use and maintenance, including the software aspects of hardware design. The journal has a wide scope ranging from the many facets of methodological foundations to the details of technical issues andthe aspects of industrial practice. The subjects of interest to SCP cover the entire spectrum of methods for the entire life cycle of software systems, including • Requirements, specification, design, validation, verification, coding, testing, maintenance, metrics and renovation of software; • Design, implementation and evaluation of programming languages; • Programming environments, development tools, visualisation and animation; • Management of the development process; • Human factors in software, software for social interaction, software for social computing; • Cyber physical systems, and software for the interaction between the physical and the machine; • Software aspects of infrastructure services, system administration, and network management.