

Xcode scored the highest, 22, followed by Visual Studio with a score of 21 and Android Studio with 13. It tested Apple’s Xcode, Android Studio and Microsoft’s Visual Studio in the following areas: languages, platforms, team working, gaming, testing and the editor.

Catching Up With iOS and Windows?Īndroid’s tools for mobile developers lag behind those from Apple and Microsoft, Strategy Analytics has found. Device GPUs “are being used increasingly for a variety of nongraphical computations, and so this will be a generally applicable improvement,” he said. GPU Profiler’s new capabilities “will help build graphics-intensive applications, mostly games,” but that’s not all.

“GPUs are getting used more and more these days,” Hilwa said. It also lets devs record entire sessions and walk through the GL Framebuffer and Textures while their app is running OpenGL ES code, Google said. The GPU Profiler displays details about the GL State and Commands, giving devs a look at memory and graphics management so they will know how efficiently their code is running. A D V E R T I S E M E N T What the GPU Profiler Does
