Is anyone else experiencing terrible performance in Android?
I’ve mainly been testing on my iPhone, it’s a 16 Pro Max. The app deployed through TestFlight takes about 4 seconds to open from closed. It’s a little bit slow to navigate as it’s doing a lot of database searches, but overall it’s a good experience.
I got a Samsung A13 to do some Android testing. Not a top performer and a couple years old, but I thought it would be adequate for testing my fairly simple app. I’ve attached a recording of the device opening the app deployed through Play Store internal testing. It took almost a minute and a half just to load my app, and most of that is just a white screen not indicating anything is happening. I also opened the Play Store from closed just to show it’s not a complete potato. It takes it only about 5 seconds to load the Play Store, which has a way more complicated home page.
YES! Finally someone else testing in Android Glad to see you’re running into the same app name issue as I am. Quick note: Don’t submit your app to review through Google until Bubble gets the app name issue figured out. Google will reject it and flag your account for misrepresenting your app, and potentially ban your app from the app store. Accidentally learned that the hard way.
About two weeks ago I went through my app on an android test device in internal testing as well and screen recorded several issues and sent them to Bubble. Still waiting to hear back on any of them though I’d assume that with the holidays they’re taking some time off/short staffed.
The issues I noted for them:
Sheets will occasionally crash the app if you have data in lists inside them.
The Startup Screen displays a weird green background (this happened on iOS for my apps as well too, earlier on but they got it resolved).
Loading a sheet with a date or time picker on it will only load the date/time picker and not the rest of the sheet. It is also inoperable when doing this.
Typing in inputs inside sheets will crash the app.
I know they’re working more on Android so hopefully we’ll have usable Android Apps here shortly.
Thanks for the heads up! I think I saw somewhere else that app name issue, might’ve been you. I’ve also experienced all those issues, and reported them via the feedback form.
I’ve tested opening and closing the app several times now, and it always takes about a minute and 30 seconds to open from closed. Do you also have a long load time and poor performance? I’m planning to borrow a co-worker’s Pixel soon to see if it performs better on a faster device, however our user base has some low-end Android devices in it, so I’d like it to perform better than this.
Yeah it definitely does take a while to load. I ordered a cheap, new, moto razr for testing ($130ish) and it’s taking a solid 20-30 seconds to open the app.
I wish somebody from bubble can actually tell what is going on in relation to these problem, If its something in our end to fix or something they are working on.
Mostly likely its on our end. Android is theoretically supported out of the box, but there are some minor differences in some of the native code that needs to be handled. We prioritized iOS leading up the the private beta, but will be working over the next few weeks to fix these bugs! Please keep reporting issues as this will help us improve the stability.
It would be super useful to know what to expect from an Android app.
Is there anyone who already has a functional app with decent performance on Android?
I’m from Europe, where 70-80% of users are on Android.
Hi @nick.carroll,
Do you have any ETA, timeline (Approximate/Exact), Status, any progress update at all, on where the “Better Android Support” is?
Thanks for you help
Glad to see you’re running into the same app name issue as I am. Quick note: Don’t submit your app to review through Google until Bubble gets the app name issue figured out. Google will reject it and flag your account for misrepresenting your app, and potentially ban your app from the app store. Accidentally learned that the hard way.