I've recently started automating Android apps and I was shocked about the speed (slowness) of interaction with instrumented apps via spy and overall speed of playback. A simple test consisting of login, few touches and validations here or there and logout took about 18-20m! Plus it was incredibly slow to interact with the app UI, via Spy. Just today, I found an old post discussing similar issue. And sure enough, disabling "Full image comparison" in instrumentation settings helped also in my case! The same test now finished in 1.8-1.9m and interaction with UI via Spy is smooth, like working with desktop/web apps. I can finally track elements, without 30s or longer delays, between clicks in mobile app UI tree
