Performance on the Galaxy Tab (from 2012) was really horrible without Crosswalk, totally unacceptable. Now with Crosswalk added it was still not fast but it looked much better, it was acceptable.
I came across a few other performance tips that I want to try out:
- disable JS-scrolling, enable native scrolling: Poor performance on android?
- a trick to use “native view transitions”: Native View Transition Animations
Also I’d like to try if I can publish 2 versions of my app in the Google Play store, one without Crosswalk for the newer devices that don’t need it and one for the older devices with Crosswalk:
Should be possible.
I have to say that on the Galaxy S3 performance is very satisfactory, but the performance that I saw on the Galaxy Tab really made me doubt if Ionic/hybrid is the right choice.
On the other hand we’re in a beta/prototype phase of the app so I’m confident it’s good enough for that. Based on feedback of a somewhat larger user group we could always decide (if it would be really necessary) to reimplement the thing using different technology.
But we’d rather not of course. 