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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 16 Apr, 2018
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  1) Every 0.1 seconds, save it.

  There is no reason to do that and it will be very inefficient and have a significant performance impact. The feature is designed for one-off saves. If you provide a project that uses the feature in a reasonable fashion, I can take a look, but otherwise it sounds like it's not working because you're mis-using the feature.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 16 Apr, 2018
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  The project uses a third-party addon. Please see the bug report guidelines, closing. Also both those URLs you provided return 404 not found, which is obviously a problem with the server, not Construct.

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  • 16 Apr, 2018
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  Please file such issues to the Bugs forum following all the guidelines.

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  • 16 Apr, 2018
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  It's just a developer utility for Phonegap, even if it's permanently removed I don't think it would affect anything else in Phonegap or Cordova.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 14 Apr, 2018
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  Please file any other issues that have not already been reported to the bug tracker following all the guidelines, otherwise they won't be investigated.

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  • 13 Apr, 2018
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  One of your beta builds completely broke games using physics if they were exported with minified script. How do you explain that one if there is no technical reason for minifying to affect things?

  The variable renaming process broke it. However a successful renaming of a variable should not affect performance. Honestly, I do know what I'm talking about. I actually wrote part of the minifier we use.

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  • 13 Apr, 2018
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  Minifying absolutely affects performance in this case. In my case only on Galaxy S6, OP is also testing it on a Samsung phone,so that is why I jumped in with my example.

  Minifying essentially removes whitespace and renames variables to shorter names. So there is no functional difference and no technical reason why this would affect performance. I'll believe it if you provide a project and benchmarks that I can replicate. It's also very common for people to mis-attribute the cause of sporadic issues.

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  • 13 Apr, 2018
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  Please see the bug report. We currently cannot reproduce any problem on any of our iOS 11.3 devices. It is essential to first find a way to reproduce the problem.

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  • 12 Apr, 2018
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  Nepeo maintains the build server, so that's who to tag for any such issues. Please report any issues to the bug tracker. It looks like it's already being worked on: https://github.com/Scirra/Construct-3-bugs/issues/1481

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  • 12 Apr, 2018
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  Other users have reported lately that ad blockers like UBlock can also block the downloads.

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  • 12 Apr, 2018
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  The manual is intended as a concise, comprehensive reference of all features in Construct. If you want guides on how to use certain workflows, I think tutorials are a better place for that.

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  • 12 Apr, 2018
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  Minifying script should not affect performance.

  The issue is in how frames are scheduled so it's not really a performance issue, it's just a fix for smoothness. Cordova apps on Android still use Chrome to run the game.

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  • 11 Apr, 2018
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  Does the renderer system expression say "webgl" or "canvas2d" when in Cordova? Which device are you testing?

  If it says "webgl" then Google have fixed an issue that could cause jank and the next update or two of Chrome should have the fix.

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  • 11 Apr, 2018
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  This should be fixed in r256. Please test the latest version before filing bugs.

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  • 11 Apr, 2018
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  Local Storage is the only way you can save data. It should work fine for that though.