Severe Performance Decrease Upgrading From 2.70 - 2.80

[lowerclasswarfare]

Describe the bug When opening the app there is a noticeable lag when using the menus or tools. Trying to crop an image is basically unusable as the screen updates are extremely slow.

EDIT: After playing with the settings a bit I turned off drawing shadows beneath containers and got a noticeable performance increase.

To Reproduce Literally just upgraded the app and used it.

Expected behavior Smooth operation and fast editing in 2.70 Menus and screen does not lag.

Screenshots

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: LG V30 model LG-H931
• OS: Android 9

Let me know what I can do to help figure out what is happening. I know I'm running an older phone but the last version worked flawlessly.

[NikunjK8]

Also when you search something in settings and press back button to clear out, it lags a bit. This doesn't happen in others apps.

[T8RIN]

Okay, maybe shadows could be changed a bit

[NikunjK8]

Is it actually happing because of shadows tho? Shadows existed in previous stable version as well but app was working fine. Did the new version changed something regarding visuals?

[T8RIN]

Yes, some shadows drawing on render script now instead of soft layer, that was a mistake

[NikunjK8]

I see. I think a quick fix release is needed. Lag and crashes are two major problem in new release.

[T8RIN]

Will be today i hope

[T8RIN]

hmm, maybe that's not shadows, i Double checked and there nothing changed in their render, maybe compose bumping was the issue, anyway, i can just disable shadows by default for some phones

[T8RIN]

How it's going on alpha 2.8.2 ?

[nexus226]

How it's going on alpha 2.8.2 ?

I can say I'm having the same issue. ~~When the preview loads~~ on any of the modes, scrolling lags horribly. Shadows are disabled. Latest version.

Edit: also happens with previews disabled. Using Android 13

[T8RIN]

that's compose related thing i think, maybe that's will be better in alpha 02

[nexus226]

It still isn't fixed but something weird I noticed is that the app doesn't lag when turned to the horizontal orientation

[T8RIN]

Because there are less objects in the lazy list, compose issue

[T8RIN]

on initial startup all shadows will be enabled only if device performance is high, on average performance only some shadows will be enabled, on low performance there will be no shadows enabled initally