Android 13 (Api Version 33) Performance on Android 13 devices

Capacitor
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Has anybody noticed a large performance decrease on Android 13 devices, once the change has targetSdkVersion has been changed to 33?

We got notice from Google that we needed to update our targetSdkVersion, and we produced a new build for our users. Since then, we’ve had a number of complaints about the performance of our app on Android 13 devices. This does not occur on any older version devices, just on Android 13 devices. We also don’t experience the issue on an emulator based on api version 33.

Does anybody know if this is a known issue or is there something else I can do to help with this performance?

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Refactor to optimize your code.

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Yes, I understand that is probably something that needs to happen at some point, something we are working on, but the fact that just changing the targetSdkVersion causes such a hit on performance is a bit worrisome. Nothing changed from the build, other than changing that, and it was a very noticeable difference.