Phonegap - cordova is laggy and slow on android and iOS devices

Question

I just now started with my first PhoneGap project using zend studio. But, after i build and deploy it, the application is quite slow. Both on android and iOS. The scrolling is l

Answer 1

In Android KitKat you can use DevTools to debug performance of your application. This is a great video to get to grips with the tools: https://developers.google.com/live/shows/840309825

You should experiment with turning off hardware acceleration on the WebView, but would recommend experimenting on Pre-KitKat and KitKat seperately. The KitKatWebView is based on Chrome and as a result has very different performance characteristics.