Make your Android phone feel faster - for free

[kasdashd]

Just wanted to share this with anyone who didn't know about it. 

 

In the developer options on Android phones, which you can enable by tapping your build number 7 times, you can change the speed of the UI animations, or even disable them completely, just like you can disable all animations in WIndows. This make the phone feel faster, cause transitions happen instantly, instead of doing sliding animations and stuff like that. I'm actually surprised that these aren't disabled by default, or at least sped up from the default 1x speed to 0.5x speed. 

 

Anyway, most of you tech people in here probably already know about this, but some people might not, and might've just learned something new by now.

[Eigenvektor]

2 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

I'm actually surprised that these aren't disabled by default, or at least sped up from the default 1x speed to 0.5x speed.

 To think lack of animations was something a manager remarked negatively during one of my past workplace reviews… take your coworker as an example, he adds all these little animations that makes stuff feel a lot more professional.

 

That said, transitions can often help less experienced user to understand what's going on. So I can see why they are enabled by default. Experienced users can always disable them.

[Kilrah]

Animations are often there precisely to make things feel smoother.

 

With animation - the animation starts instantly, even if stuff is still loading

Without animation - if things haven't loaded yet you get an instant of nothing happening, which can be way more frustrating.

[NavyCobra1417]

I can't say I feel as if I'm waiting on animations while trying to do something on my phone.

 

Animations can make a lot of transitions feel more cohesive, imo.