How Appdome Protections Affect App Performance

This article explains how Appdome is designed to minimize performance impact while ensuring strong, on-device mobile app security.

Appdome is built to minimize performance impact on mobile apps. By integrating only selected features, running on secure side threads, and avoiding unnecessary main thread usage, Appdome ensures that security protections do not significantly affect startup time, memory consumption, or overall performance.

Selective Integration

Only the security features enabled during fusion are linked and compiled into the Appdome library. This ensures your app contains only what you’ve chosen—nothing extra is added that could slow down performance.

Awareness of User Experience

Appdome serves some of the world’s largest brands and millions of end-users. We are highly sensitive to ANR events, crash rates, and user experience metrics. Our engineering approach is designed to safeguard performance while delivering enterprise-grade security.

Thread Management

Appdome executes security functions on secure side threads, offloading as much work as possible away from the app’s main UI thread. By avoiding the main thread, Appdome ensures security checks do not interfere with normal app operations or responsiveness.

Effect on Main Thread

Appdome’s protections may only affect the main thread when encrypted resources are required early in the app lifecycle—for example, during startup. In this case, Appdome must decrypt the resource before the app can proceed, which can momentarily block the main thread. This behavior is necessary for the app to function properly and is limited to specific use cases.

Appdome is committed to delivering strong mobile app security without compromising performance or user experience. To explore additional features and learn more about how Appdome works, visit our Knowledge Base.

Related Articles:

• Getting Started with Appdome
• Releasing Secured Android & iOS Apps
• Appdome Mobile Security Suite
• Appdome Support Levels Overview

How Do I Learn More?

If you have any questions, please send them our way at support.appdome.com or via the chat window on the Appdome platform.

Thank you!

Thanks for visiting Appdome! Our mission is to secure every app on the planet by making mobile app security easy. We hope we’re living up to the mission with your project.