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> ...on my home screen on my Pixel 4...

> Things like fluid scrolling...

Well, yeah. It's not exactly apples to Apples to compare your 2022 iPhone to an Android phone from 2019. On my Z-Flip 4, Tusky has no problem hitting 120Hz scroll.

That being said, I can't disagree with his larger point when it comes to many commercial apps - design teams are all iOS and ship designs that aren't Android-first or even Android-adjacent. Android developers often end up fighting (and losing) to design teams which only care about one platform

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> not exactly apples to Apples to compare your 2022 iPhone to an Android phone from 2019

I kind of disagree. If you can't make a UI run fluidly on a phone from 4 years ago, you might be doing it wrong. UIs have tight timing budgets, true, but computers are _plenty_ fast enough to keep up. Android has more overhead than iOS and it shows.

I put up with Android because I can run my own code on my own hardware. But I'm increasingly looking at iOS favorably.

Keeping your frame times low is one thing, but it's not fair to compare a 60Hz display to a 120Hz one

He is talking about frame pacing/skipping/hitching issues not 120 vs 60 Hz (confirmed in a reply below).

The iPhone was 60 Hz until the 13 in 2021. It still felt perfectly smooth.

An iPhone from 2019 (which my wife has) still scrolls very smoothly. I assume he isn’t talking about refresh rate, he is talking About jerkily scrolling because the developer is making blocking calls on the main thread or re-rendering already visible elements. I also experience this on my Android test device.

Correct. I am not talking about frame rate.

Well, I am. If you buy a $600 Android phone today, you'll get much smoother scrolling than if you buy a $600 Apple phone today. Your assertion is just false when it comes to phones available today.

I have a 2019 iPhone (11 Pro!) and the scrolling is perfect. Battery about to die though.

Tusky is just fine on my 2017 mid-range Android phone...

Some people just can't see it.

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