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I'm one of the authors of the article, and the CTO of Superpowered. I apologize if the article was confusing. Marshmallow improves audio latency here and there on some devices, but…

"We updated our findings with the recent improvements in Android M (Marshmallow), and recently released a solution for Android’s USB audio and MIDI challenges, opening a market of …

Android's audio stack is "pushing" audio down to the audio driver, with the audio threads sleeping between every push. In other words, the audio driver's interrupts are not schedul…

ALSA is super. The HAL connecting ALSA to AudioFlinger is the major problem, plus the audio stack's "push" philosophy.

All of the measurements and the latency graph shows you a pure NDK implementation.

They did not forgot to write nice professional audio and music tools for Android. They can't, because of audio latency and dropouts.

Audio Flinger is not Java. On the graph you see absolutely no part which runs on Java. Android's media architecture with it's "push" design is not more compatible than anything els…