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Maximize Performance: Porting, Profiling, and 16KB Page Size Innovations for Android Games (Presented by Google Play)

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Ready to bring your PC game to Android? Need to optimize a demanding game for Android? In this session, Google's Android team and Emil Kjhr from Funday Games (creator of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor) share real-world lessons on porting, profiling, and performance optimization. From navigating common pitfalls to leveraging the latest Android features and tools, this session offers practical strategies for developers looking to optimize their games to run well on Android.Topics include:State of Vulkan on Android: A quick recap of how Vulkan is gaining adoption by high performance games, and what to expect for future devices. Porting PC Games: Case studies, essential steps, and how to avoid the mistakes that slow down your launch.New Game Profiler: An exclusive first look at Google's upcoming system and GPU profiler for improving performance across diverse architectures.16 KB Page Size: How Android's memory page size support boosts performance, now enabled through Unity (since 2021) and Unreal (since 5.6).

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