New Quadrant releases are available on SlideME.

Unlike the Standard Edition, the new releases display a breakdown of a total score. CPU, memory, I/O, 2D and 3D graphics performance are rated separately.

The group is available at the following location: http://groups.google.com/group/aurora-softworks-quadrant

Quadrant, a new benchmark for Android devices, is now available on Android Market. Quadrant is capable of measuring the following performance metrics:

• CPU – arithmetic operations, XML parsing, multimedia decoding
• Memory throughput
• I/O – filesystem access and database operations
• 2D graphics
• 3D graphics – OpenGL single-pass and multi-pass rendering with stencil buffers

Signal Framework has received a 5 Stars award from soft82.com:
http://www.soft82.com/download/windows/signal-framework/

Quadrant is an upcoming benchmark for Android smartphones that tests the performance of mobile devices by taxing them with various loads ranging from video decoding to 3D graphics rendering.

A beta release is expected in the upcoming weeks. Additional information will be made available at http://www.aurorasoftworks.com/products/quadrant as we get closer to the release date.

A new release of the Signal Framework is available and includes the following changes:

• Bugfixes,
• Documentation updates.

A new release of the Signal Framework is available and includes the following changes:

• Bugfixes,
• Documentation updates,
• Package names changed to reflect the new website domain.

I have been looking for Android benchmarks and so far only found a few applications worth mentioning.

Quadrant is an Android benchmark capable of measuring CPU, memory, I/O and 3D graphics performance.

android-benchmarks is a set of routines that test the performance of Java and C code on Android devices.

BenchmarkPI is an application that computes the Pi number to assess the performance of a smartphone CPU.

Droid Bench in a benchmark application that tests CPU and I/O performance. It also uses OpenGL to render a 3D scene but there does not seem to be a way to measure the FPS. I could not get some of the features to work.

Can you recommend anything else?

Google provides Windows, Linux and Mac OS X releases of Android SDK. Unfortunately the Linux build is a 32-bit application and setup on modern Linux desktops requires some tweaking. The following steps are needed:

• Download the SDK and extract to a directory of your choice.
• Create new environment variables named ANDROID_SDK and ANDROID_SDK_15. Both should point to the SDK installation directory.
• Make sure that JAVA_HOME points to a 64-bit JDK.
• Add $ANDROID_SDK/tools to the PATH variable.
• Install 32-bit releases of the following libraries: libXt, libXtst, libXi and ncurses. Your package manager should allow 32-bit and 64-bit versions to co-exist on your system.
• Create an AVD (Android Virtual Device) instance, e.g.
  android create avd -n my_avd -t 1

You should now be able to launch the Android emulator with the following command (my_avd is name of the newly created Android Virtual Device):

emulator -avd my_avd

The new URL is http://www.aurorasoftworks.com/products/signalframework.