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Re:An update on Android's audio latency by philsnow on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:25PM (#26364039)
The article and all the responses here express "latency" as a simple scalar number. Is it actually more like a histogram of values than a scalar, and the marketing number is the 90th %ile of that histogram?

My impression is that Android has more latency variance than iOS. If that's true then it's important to be clear what the reported numbers represent.

Re:An update on Android's audio latency by jefftk on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:13PM (#26364618)
If you open the audio context you should see consistent latency as long as you keep it open, but each time you open a new audio context you might end up with different latency. You should not see jitter within a single context.
Re:An update on Android's audio latency by Godel_unicode on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:47PM (#26364181)
Latency variance is known as jitter. What gives you the impression that it would be high on Android?
Re:An update on Android's audio latency by philsnow on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:45PM (#26379067)
Having used nearly every flagship android device from the HTC Dream up through the Nexus 6p, and then switching to an iphone 6 and never looking back, except watching acquaintances use their android phones.

Also from talking to an engineer who worked on earlier generations of iphones, who said that every team had a latency budget that they could not exceed.