Baidu App Android Startup Performance Optimization: Theory, Tools, and Practical Implementations
Baidu dramatically accelerated its Android app’s launch by dissecting the cold‑start sequence, applying full‑path analysis, leveraging tracing tools, introducing a priority‑aware task‑scheduling framework, replacing SharedPreferences with the binary UniKV store, eliminating lock contention, and tightening thread, I/O, and library loading, which together cut ANR rates and boosted user retention.
