android javascript speed on new devices ... .

[CODEY]

i have an ipad app which worked great on IOS 5 ipad 1 .. now most people are getting IOS 6 and ipad 3rd gen ... javascript is reallly fast and my app kicks butt ... 

i tried android, i bought one (total waste of money) which was an ACER something ... i never use it because it sucks .. anyway the javascript is so horribly slow i cannot release my app on android .. now i see there is a google nexus, and probably some better samsung devices ... does anyone know if the speed of android javascript has improved? .. i really need to get into that market .. 

[CODEY]

also on that note, i cant just go buy every device out there for testing .. and the testing tools are so slow to load for android it is so painful i hate using it .. (10 minutes to load up VM!!)  insane .. does anyone know of a simple way to test androind phonegap apps on real devices maybe, or emulated through some website or something, so it is doable?  

my experience with android is horrible obviously ... would it be worth my time to convert my app from javascript to java? will it be much faster? i would assume so but i dont know .. by the way ipad mini is so gaddamn fast .. javascript is so much faster when it was already fast on ipad 1

[Gautam Chaudhary]

Javascript performance on Android and iOS is almost equivalent now. Android gives you full possible performance, where as iOS limits it as they do not allowNitro JS engine to be used in apps.

From your words i feel you just Android and have given up on it without spending enough time on it.
You don't even properly remember which Android device you bought.

Don;t ask questions like this if you can;t even compare specs like RAM.

[Ed Pataky]

haha well ram doesnt matter when the app wont run 

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[Ed Pataky]

it was Acer Iconia 

[Kerri Shotts]

Javascript performance isn't everything, you have to count gpu performance, the various WebKit glitches, etc. Android 4.x on new hardware (say Nexus) is getting there, but the experience of the same app on even older iOS hardware beats the new Nexus. But the app isn't reliant on heavy number crunching -- it /is/ reliant on other things that aren't specific to the JS engine. 

RAM, though while important isn't always the limiting factor. You need to take the device specs, OS version, vendor-specific alterations, etc. in to consideration. And then realize that just because you did your homework on a device doesn't mean the poor end-user did. And unfortunately for Android, there are a large number of devices out there that going to have abysmal performance. 

The best way to get into the market is to jump in now. The nexus 7 is so cheap that, as a developer, it may as well be considered cost-doing-business. 

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[Ed Pataky]

sure actually for my app javascript is everything though since it is phonegap and all javascript .. but i agree i should buy a nexus