Determinate Systems server is installing its own fork of Nix
that is apparently not open source:
<https://lobste.rs/s/be78ef/dropping_upstream_nix_from_determinate#c_m3hq6r>
The company behind it also pushes the users to use FlakeHub
and has other problems.
[Lix] installer is a fork of The Determinate Nix Installer.
I uninstalled Nix preivously installed with The Determinate Nix Installer
and installed Lix, it works just the same for Android builds.
Upstream Nix would also be fine,
but it still has old installer that does not enable Flakes
and breaks on macOS on upgrades apparently,
so we cannot recommend it as the easiest way.
[Lix]: https://lix.systems/
See #2019, #2020 and #2021 for failed attempts at using a benchmark framework. So, for now I'll just go with timing the results manually.
For trying this out:
- Backup your current account first, maybe there are some bugs in switching accounts.
- You can run benchmarks on either an emulated device or a real device. For better benchmark results, you should run the benchmark on a real device and make sure that the core is compiled in release mode.
- Disable animations on your device, otherwise the test may fail. (Developer options -> Window animation scale, Transition animation scale & Animatior duration scale -> set all three of them to 0x)
- In Android Studio: File -> Sync project with gradle files
- In Android Studio: Run -> Edit configurations -> `+` -> Android Instrumented test -> Either select a specific class or select "All in Module" -> OK -> Select your configuration in the toolbar -> Click on the green "run" button in the toolbar to run the tests
When the benchmark is done, you will get a result like `MEASURED RESULTS (Benchmark) - Going thorough all 10 chats: 11635,11207,11363,11352,11279,11183,11137,11145,11032,11057`, Paste `11635,11207,11363,11352,11279,11183,11137,11145,11032,11057` into a cell in a LibreOffice spreadsheet, do `Data -> Text to columns`, choose `,` as a separator, hit `OK`, and create a diagram.
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