Mobile Software Development

Quadrant Advanced and Professional Editions released

Marek — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:16:18 +0000

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.

Quadrant discussion group created

Marek — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:26:44 +0000

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

Quadrant Standard Edition released

Marek — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:13:52 +0000

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 receives a soft82.com award

Marek — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:31:44 +0000

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

Quadrant – an upcoming Android benchmark

Marek — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:20:03 +0000

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.

Signal Framework 0.5

Marek — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:25:11 +0000

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

Bugfixes,
Documentation updates.

Signal Framework 0.4-beta

Marek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:35:04 +0000

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.

Android benchmarks?

Marek — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:49:20 +0000

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?

Setting up Android SDK on Linux

Marek — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:07:40 +0000

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

Signal Framework moving to a new website

Marek — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:43:45 +0000

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