Timers not accurate (online game)

[broekmancompany (Arjan Broekman)]

Hi,
I am making a online game with the canvas component and a extension ComponentTools. The game works and online is almost done.

but I run into something. When I give the sprite a speed between1-5 and an interval of 1, the sprite on one phone is faster at the end of the canvas than on the other phone.

After long testing I found out that the real timer interval are very different on both phones.

Does anyone have tips how to give a fixed interval to the sprite or a fixed distance that it runs with at least an interval of 1? Or have a extension that would solve my timer problem?

[Romnigames (Romnigames Ltd)]

Increase the interval as some phones literally cannot compute that fast.

[Ansh_Anand (Nightmare)]

I also faced the same issue and what I observed was devices with good processing power will be more accurate with smooth movements and for a low processing device, it will be the opposite.

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@broekmancompany

After long testing I found out that the real timer interval are very different

This is really a well-known (very old) problem that has been discussed extensively in all App Inventor forums since 2014.

So search the forums … there are a number of solutions …

Here is one of the first approaches (early 2014):

Also see here (to compare the accuracy of the clock component with a real-time timer extension):

Upcoming extension: countdown / up timer - date / time format - in real time

I’m going to create a new extension that counts down or up seconds (or ms), but also displays the duration / time in the date format (eg: HH:mm:ss). The special thing is that the extension does not use a clock and / or does not work with the java countdownTimer, but catch and displays the time in real time. In this way, the countdown / count up does not lose a single millisecond regardless of how long the period is. The extension (in which I was supported by @Red_Panda with regard to some spe…