Due to the diversity of Android devices' configurations, different mobile phones or tablets show different fluency and image quality in the same game. The difference in picture quality is easy to see, after all, "there are pictures and truth". As for the measurement of fluency, we usually introduce the frame number for quantification. How can Android devices display the frame number of the game?

 FPS Meter

FPS Meter has been considered as an "elder" application in our introduction this time. Because of its intuitiveness, many players like to use it to display the number of frames. It can display the real-time frame number, maximum frame number, minimum frame number, average frame number (within the last minute) and other information of the game in the form of suspension. To use it, the mobile phone needs to obtain Root permission ▼

In particular, it is necessary to open "Disable HW Overlay" ▼ in the developer's option when using FPS Meter

The latest version 1.5 cannot display the average frames ▼ normally

Thumb play

It's really not intended to sell ads for Thumb Play, nor to encourage people to play pirated games, but Thumb Play's repackaged game has its own frame number display tool. When you open the game, there will be an orange tool kit prompt in the lower left corner, and you can set the frame number after clicking ▼

Of course, this is not a special frame number display application, so the function is relatively simple, and can only display real-time frames ▼

GameBench

GameBench is a new game "score running" application, which can display the frame number curve, CPU utilization and memory occupation of the game. It is a powerful frame number display method, and it also needs to obtain Root permission. The following figure is a screenshot ▼ of the frame number curve displayed by GameBench

Some information of the test process ▼

CPU utilization and GPU utilization curve ▼

When running the game, a timer will appear in the lower left corner, indicating that GameBench is running ▼

Master Yi

Master Yi is a domestic game scoring application. It can also display the average frame number of the game, draw the frame number curve within one minute, CPU utilization and memory utilization. However, it can only test the frame number of games that have been adapted, and does not need to obtain root permissions ▼

The figure below shows the average number of frames in the game ▼

Frame number curve ▼

Real time frames can be displayed when running the game ▼

Adreno Profiler

Finally, let's introduce the tools from Qualcomm (of course, only for mobile phones with Qualcomm processors), which is also the most "tall and tall" way to display the frame number in this article. It requires mobile phones to connect to computers, and then read the real-time frame number of mobile phones through adb, and draw a curve. At the same time, data can be called out. We can use Excel to process these data by ourselves. Since this is originally a software provided to developers, it has many GPU debugging functions in addition to displaying the number of frames ▼

Finally, the download links of the above frame number tests are provided: