His initial approach in the video is to comfort people wondering if the +Nexus 5X, they might have just ordered is actually slow.
What I got from the video however is that a difference in performance between the 5X and the 6P is much larger than I expected.
Like 1-generation gap difference of real-world performance.
In the attached article's comments, there's a link to this other video made by +Android Headlines which doesn't show as much gap apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WS01o-1zl0
It's interesting as second take.
Watching this new type of videos becoming popular, evaluating the amount of time you wait when using your phone and multitasking capabilities makes me wonder about the possibility to replicate those in an automated way.
It might be possible to script all that, and get some quite valuable metrics allowing to compare phones quickly.
Maybe a few Android publications could team up and fund the development of such evaluation tool.
Wouldn't that kind of be like benchmarking though?
+Ahmad Ouerfelli indeed, making this test automated instead of manual.
With real multiple apps, managed by the system instead of a synthetic benchmark tho.
+François Simond couldn't you just do an adb script and dump information about the running processes along the way with dumpsys (I think) and then parse that to get.. Well something I guess…
+Michael Panzer I was thinking about something based on that 😊
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkeyrunner_concepts.html
+François Simond there you have to know too much about the application it seems. Adb has already a way to start applications and send broadcasts. You just have to wait assumed time and dump system information. I'm not sure how useful such a test would be…
I'm doing that pretty simply by putting my phone in the hands of my 1 year-old baby. You can't simulate such crazy fast task switching with multiple screen inputs, and if it is possible to break it, he will find a way. Screen pinning doesn't work, BTW.
They should be comparing the 5X with LG G4 and the LG V10. They should be comparing the Nexus 6P with the OnePlus Two. Then that would be an apples to apples comparison.