Drawing Options; Monitoring Options - Samsung Galaxy S III User Manual

Drawing Options

Configure options for updating the screen during development.
1. Press
2. Tap the check box next to each option to enable:
 Show layout boundaries: Displays boundaries for clips, margins, etc.
 Show GPU view updates: Flashes views inside windows when drawn with the GPU.
 Show screen updates: Areas of the screen flash as they update.
 Window animation scale: Configure the scale for windows.
 Transition animation scale: Configure the scale for transitioning when using
animation.
 Animator duration scale: Configure the scale for animator duration.
 Disable hardware overlays: When enabled, the GPU is always used for screen
compositing.
 Force GPU rendering: Uses a 2D acceleration in applications.

Monitoring Options

Set Monitoring options to monitor processing or debugging during development.
1. Press
2. Tap options to configure:
 Strict mode: The screen flashes when apps perform long operations on the main
thread.
 Show CPU usage: Screen highlights the current CPU usage.
 GPU rendering profile: Measures rendering time in adb shell dumpsys gfxinfo.
 Enable traces: Choose traces to create.
Settings
and then tap > Settings > Developer options.
and then tap > Settings > Developer options.
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