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

Perhaps a somewhat obvious solution, but... have you tried only handling about 1/10 of them? If you're doing processing that's triggered every 10ms on the UI thread, that's likely going to slow down the framerate, yes. So what if you just accumulate a counter somewhat instead and only do any processing once that's gotten past some minimal threshold?