Animations on Android and their impact on performance

Your Android phone may not work as before and has become slow and it is difficult for him to enter the menus, access the internet or change the screen when we slide, don’t worry we are going to tell you how to make your mobile go faster taking a few steps to deactivate the animations , the result is excellent, getting up to doubling the speed In most cases.

For this we will help ourselves with the options available to Android phones for developers, they are options that are usually hidden but that we can activate and modify them to our liking since sometimes they are necessary, for example to enable the screen to 62 Hz of the Google Pixel it was necessary to access an option to force it to always go at this speed.

In this case we will use specific options for modify the values ​​of the animations when we open or change a window.

Once these simple actions have been carried out, you will see how your phone Android looks like another, will work faster to open applications, switch from one to another or slide between different windows or desktops. In exchange we will give up these smooth animations that Android incorporates , since these are the ones that make the phone work slower, now we will not see them being the change between these applications or windows somewhat more abrupt.

Let’s see how to do this in a few very simple steps. to count.

How to access the Android Developer Options Menu

First and to be able to access all these options that we are going to use, we will need to access the Android developer menu which is hidden by default. Let’s see how to activate it in a few steps.

1. Let’s go to the settings of the system of our Android mobile.

2. At the end we will see an option that is About the phone click on it to get in.

3. Now click on Software information .

4. Click several times on the option Build number , a The message will tell us how many times we need to press more to enable the developer menu .

5. In order to enable it it will ask us to enter the security code from our phone as a security measure.
6. Once the PIN has been correctly entered, we will see a message indicating that the developer mode is enabled .

Now we will have available an additional menu with these functions available for developers that as we have seen are also necessary for other applications such as Droidcam.

How to disable animations for increase the speed of Android

Now we are going to see how to disable some functions and modify others to make your mobile go faster, removing the animations. These options are in the developer menu that we just unlocked.

We simply follow these steps.

1. Let’s go back to the settings of our mobile.

2. Now we will see how at the end a new option appears called Options developer , click to enter it.

3. Now we will have to scroll to find the option Window animation scale which will be marked at 1x, click to enter and see the different options.

4. We select Animation disabled , if we want to test the reverse effect we can select 10 x and try to enter this same option again.

5. Now the next option we will have to do the same, in Transition duration scale we enter and deactivate it.

6. We repeat the same step with the option of Animation duration scale and we deactivate it too.

7. We left the menu and we return to the desktop of our mobile.

Once all these options are deactivated we will have our Android phone ready, we can enter the different applications that we use daily and see their menus, we will see that now everything works more fast and that there are no animations or smooth transitions between screens or when opening applications.

Revert all changes made

We have simply been able to test how everything is going with these changes, but It may not convince us or that our phone does not earn much for different reasons. No problem, we can revert all these changes by performing the reverse steps to leave it as it was or we can do it all in a single step we tell you how to do it.

1. We return to the Settings of our phone.

2. We are looking for the developer options at the end of the menu and click on it to enter.

3. At the top we see how there is an option that indicates that this menu is Activated , to revert these changes simply we will have to deactivate this menu .

Now everything will be as before , in addition the developer menu will have disappeared, being necessary to activate it again as we indicated in the first steps.

Conclusion

If you have an Android terminal that is already old and works well, although somewhat slow , you can follow these simple steps to gain some speed when navigating through the different menus or applications of our phone , when animations and transitions between windows disappear, everything It will go a little faster, although the aspect is less smooth when changing windows or opening applications.

Also you can try this type of options if you don’t like it or if you prefer to do without animations s Soft that the system has when switching between windows, when opening applications or menus in the applications, if your phone is current and has enough power, it may be that you do not notice improvement in terms of speed , but if you you will eliminate these transitions or animations in case you do not like them or you don’t want to have them.

In any case, you can adjust them to your liking , in this way you can customize the animations and transitions to your liking, being more or less fast or you can also remove some and leave others .

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