#Chromium element android#

This can feel slow compared to other apps and is due to all the work needed to process a page’s HTML, CSS, JS and Fonts. To start drawing a web page at the median takes 3.4s from launch ( First Contentful Paint /FCP ).

#Chromium element android#

What if we could make these transitional glimpses of web content more useful, interactable and engaging while waiting for the real page to be ready?Ĭase Study: Showing Web Content faster at Cold StartĬhrome App cold startup on Android is expensive. However, a screenshot is also more limited than a web page as it is constrained to whatever was last visible and is entirely static. The de-facto option for this is a screenshot which is visually accurate and allows a user to see at a glance what they are opening. This leads to the question of whether there is a lighter-weight way to represent web content when the situation calls for it-for example, in transitional UI like the tab switcher or during startup when a lot of warm-up work is occurring. On mobile devices this is particularly challenging and Chrome can often only keep a handful of web pages loaded at a time due to the memory constraints of the device. A lot of work needs to be done to dynamically load resources over the network, run JavaScript, render CSS, fonts, etc. Rendering web content can be computationally intensive and can feel slow at times compared to a native application. Read on to see how the screenshot falls short, and freeze-drying your tabs makes for a better browser.

Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how we sped up the startup times of Chrome on Android by more than 20% by providing an interactive freeze-dried preview of a tab on startup.

We believe that 'good enough' is never enough when it comes to pushing the performance of Chrome.