Why are touch events destroying my Android framerate?

Question

I\'m developing a game for Android. It\'s got a lot going on but is running reasonably smoothly. That is, of course, until the user touches the screen.

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Answer 1

Read this thread. Basically you want to sleep the event thread since otherwise the system will pump a lot of events (between x,y and pressure there is always some movement going on) that you need to handle.