I'm wondering if anyone else has also seen this nasty issue I have since the last update in May to 3.16.3 on Android. After the update I now have a fairly serious issue that is making SkyDemon unusable for me. When in flying (or simulation) mode the map window flashes white and blanks out regularly for up to a few seconds at a time each time the aircraft icon moves, but only if I have one of the tab dialogs open, e.g. I keep the radio tab open in flight for current/next frequency info etc. It's only the live map window section that flashes and disappears, the tabs and dialogs don't flash etc. If I unclick the tab then all appears ok again. If I drag the window with my finger it's really bad I have attached a link to a video I took that shows the issue.

In the video I am in simulation mode but it was the same in flight and quite unusable now. Before this latest upate all was good and has worked fine for years so something has changed in the refresh/graphics code around this window.

I have contacted support already but they say it's not in the software and must be a problem with my device, but as I say, it has worked fine on all the previous versions so something has changed in the software somewhere and no other apps cause an effect like this. Anyone any ideas? I can't use it like this.

Hi Tim,

I download and rolled back to the previous apk file for version 3.15.8 and all works ok again, no horrible flicker. Then updated again to the latest version 3.16 and instantly the problem comes back and it starts flickering again. I have attached another video link showing the differences between versions, something has definitley changed.

Hmmm, I have checked if there is a setting on my device (Huawei Tab4 8 plus) to switch off the hardware acceleration and unfortunately there is not, it's on by default with the later versions of Android for all tablets by the looks of it. From what I have read, it appears that each application needs to specifically set it off in code when it runs, so sounds like SkyDemon would need that setting inside itself as an option.

I have checked around other apps that use web content windows/dialogs and don't see any issues with those though, I would expect to see the same kind of issue elsewhere.

I appreciate that development on Android is not that straight forward in terms of  maintaining compatibility across the many brands and devices that use it, but this seems like a big issue that could affect other devices. I guess I'm now looking at buying a new tablet but am now wondering which one and whether it will be compatible with Skydemon now and in the future. And no, I'm not changing to an iPad, hate Apple products with a passion