Anbox uses a lot of power, makes device hot

[cyberpunkedu]

Device: FP2 Channel: 16.04/devel Anbox Version: 2018-09-16 whatever is most recent.

When running anbox apps, the device gets quite hot. It seems to be requiring a lot of power. App performance is a bit laggy, especially on touch input. Not sure if it's related or not.

[mariogrip]

does it only when the app is visible or does the same happen when the app is not showing? and does this happen of the device is locked?

[cyberpunkedu]

The testing is still a bit inconclusive. I can say that it's definitely warmer only when running anbox applications in the foreground but it seems to only be the case with the wifi on, so maybe it's a wifi kernel thing? Battery life also seems worse with the anbox kernel.

Anyway, maybe need more testing and other input. Results are a bit inconsistent so far.

[mihaelmilea]

My anbox keyboard is also laggy and battery drainage is constant since I installed anbox (turbo):

[mihaelmilea]

anbox-tool disable saves battery life. I enable it when I need anbox.

[ITwrx]

Yes, it seems to be more inefficient than i would expect it to need to be. Hopefully there is a large virtualization/graphics gain to be had somewhere, b/c right now the performance is probably not going to be good enough to actually use day to day, at least for the apps i want to use. Currently, CSipSimple and Jami. i'm using a Nexus 5 with UBports 16.04 stable.