Tencent X5 and Egret Runtime jointly promote HTML5 game development

As early as September 23 last year, at the X5 browsing service launch conference held by Tencent, Tencent announced that the X5 kernel will cooperate with Egret Era, focusing on the application of Egret Runtime components to further enhance the user experience of HTML5 games on mobile devices. At the same time, Egret co-founder Ma Jian was also on the scene to share the comprehensive improvement and help brought by the cooperation between Egret Runtime and Tencent X5 browsing service to improve its browsing experience.

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Figure: Tencent X5 and Egret jointly promote HTML5 game development

Tencent X5: Helping to comprehensively upgrade the performance experience of HTML5 content

This exciting news for the mobile game industry has attracted great attention from mobile industry practitioners after four months of fermentation, especially after WeChat announced that it would open the HTML5 sharing interface. At a time when HTML5 is increasingly valued by the mobile industry, HTML5 mobile games will become a new breakthrough in the game industry, which has become a consensus among the majority of industry players. So, what kind of help will Tencent X5 and Egret Runtime bring to future HTML5 mobile games?

Tencent X5 itself has improved the user experience and performance of connected products. Take mobile QQ as an example. Since adopting Tencent X5 browsing service, not only has the crash rate dropped from 0.59% to 0.06%, but it has also saved 55.66% of traffic and increased the speed by 25.88% compared with the original system kernel. In addition, X5 supports multiple video formats, and the interactive experience of video playback, volume control, etc. are almost the same as the experience of native App players. It can be said that Tencent X5 has brought the performance and experience of HTML5 content to a new level.

Egret Runtime: Greatly improve HTML5 gaming experience

In addition to traditional web pages, pictures, videos, audio, etc., HTML5 mobile games are undoubtedly important HTML5 content. Egret Runtime is an accelerator component launched by Egret Times that is dedicated to improving the speed and stability of HTML5 games. It can greatly improve the HTML5 gaming experience. Prior to this, Egret also launched the self-developed Egret engine and a series of tools to help developers quickly develop HTML5 mobile games. In short, Egret Times provides a complete set of HTML5 game development and operation solutions for the mobile game industry.

According to Ma Jian's introduction at the X5 conference, with the acceleration of Egret Rumtime, HTML5 games will have a 3-5 times performance improvement, which is about 30 times the performance improvement of the PhoneGAP solution, making HTML5 games close to the experience of native games.

Figure: QQ Browser X5 kernel Egret Runtime makes the game fly

Strong cooperation to build a complete HTML5 mobile game ecosystem

On the one hand, Tencent X5 itself improves the performance and user experience of HTML5 content. On the other hand, it further improves the performance and user experience of HTML5 games based on more efficient browsing services. The powerful combination of Tencent X5 and Egret Runtime has laid a solid foundation for HTML5 mobile game developers, distribution channels and operating environment.

For developers, the Egret engine and series of tools independently developed by Egret Era can enable developers to develop high-quality HTML5 mobile games efficiently and even in an assembly line. As for the distribution channels, there are already dozens of mobile browsers and platform-level apps that have successfully accessed Tencent X5 browsing services, including vertical leading apps such as Sohu, Sina, LeTV, and 58, as well as applications with a large user scale such as WeChat, covering nearly 80% of China's mobile Internet users. Tencent X5's powerful integration capabilities will provide great convenience for the majority of HTML5 content developers. *** In terms of the operating environment, Tencent X5 has solved the operating problems of HTML5 games in various application scenarios, and Egret Runtime can greatly optimize the terminal experience. With such a strong combination, HTML5 games have almost formed a complete ecological chain from development, distribution to final operation.

HTML5 games may become the best way to convert native App traffic

Benefiting from the finalization of HTML5 technology and the promotion of solution providers such as Egret Times, HTML5 mobile games have become quite mature in terms of development technology, operating environment, user experience, etc. The click-to-play method of HTML5 mobile games is extremely efficient in converting excess App traffic. This huge advantage can even allow native games to open an HTML5 mobile game interface, thereby effectively utilizing long-tail traffic. Continuous good news and its own advantages determine that HTML5 mobile games will usher in a long period of explosion and growth in the future.

In fact, the role of Tencent X5, which has joined hands with Egret Runtime, is also quietly changing. The X5 kernel is becoming a horizontal axis across apps. As an intermediate platform, it connects major platform-level apps and applications, as well as Tencent's own products, and builds a new ecosystem of browsing services based on HTML5 content. On the one hand, with the maturity of HTML5 content, the role of independent browsers will gradually decrease after many apps are connected to Tencent X5. Tencent X5 is changing the landscape of independent mobile browsers. On the other hand, HTML5 mobile games are important content. Tencent can rely on Tencent X5 to open and share, gather all platforms and applications connected to X5, and participate in the diversion and operation of HTML5 mobile games, thereby forming a larger scale cluster and benefiting all participants.