Reducing CPU usage in Adobe AIR
Jonnie Hallman from DestroyTwitter fame and recently employed by the Adobe XD team, wrote a great article about how he reduced CPU usage in his AIR application.
“AIR gets a bad rap for being a bloated runtime, using up a lot of precious memory and CPU. Although a lot of AIR applications seem to fall into this trap, it doesn’t have to be this way. There are a number of techniques you can use to develop a lightweight application that rivals native programs in terms of performance,” he says.
The article explains what framerate throttling is and how best to implement it in your application.
11% of all Twitters are sent using an Adobe AIR application
Out of all Twitters, 11% are sent using an Adobe AIR application. Out of all Twitters sent from an application (not sent from the Twitter website), 19% are sent using an AIR app. Considering that 44% of all Twits are sent from their site, I think that’s a pretty cool number.
Tweetdeck is currently taking the lead in Twitter AIR apps followed by Twhirl. But there’s a new kid on the block: DestroyTwitter.
DestroyTwitter from DestroyToday (who you may know from DestroyFlickr fame) has got to be the sexiest Twitter client to date and it has rapidly become my favorite Twitter app. The uncluttered minimalist interface and smooth transitions got me hooked from the first moment I laid eyes on this app.
It currently has all the features you expect from a Twitter app but Jonnie Hallman, DestroyToday’s founder, has already announced many more unique features on his blog and I can’t wait for the new version to be released. He already added a couple of feature requests and is keen to listen to your input/requests as well.
James Whittaker from RefreshingApps.com has an in depth review of the application but why not give it a spin yourself?
Go ahead and download it from the DestroyToday website.
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