How Thread Scheduling Affects Android App Responsiveness
An Android app can have efficient algorithms, fast network requests, and clean architecture yet still feel strangely unresponsive. A button responds a little late, scrolling occasionally stutters, or an animation freezes even though CPU usage does not look extreme. The hidden problem may be thread scheduling. Android applications do not control a CPU core exclusively. Their threads compete with other app threads, system services, rendering processes, background tasks, and the operating system itself for processor time. The Linux scheduler underneath ...
