The UMP consent popup has terrible performance on Android due to hardware acceleration being disabled

• Unity version: 2022.3.3f1
• Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin version: 8.3.0
• Platform: Android
• Platform OS version: Android 12
• Any specific devices issue occurs on: All, but particularly slow on a Samsung S21
• Mediation ad networks used, and their versions: None

Unity forces android:hardwareAccelerated to be set to false on the main player activity, causing the UMP popup to be extremely slow on some devices, as bad as 1-2 FPS on a Samsung S21, after scrolling for a few seconds. Likely because the UMP SDK uses a WebView to display the popup, which has notoriously bad performance without hardware acceleration.

Setting hardware acceleration to true (with a post-process script) makes the consent popup smooth and fixes the problem. But this is a very bad workaround as setting it to true can cause huge performance drops in-game.

Proposed solution by Unity is to display the WebView in a separate activity that is hardware accelerated. Is this something you can implement? As, currently, it makes the UMP SDK for Unity unusable on some devices.

[Nyankoo]

@vavakadopano The issue was fixed in the latest AdMob release for Android, but as stated here (#2853), the Unity release will be somewhere in this quarter.

[NVentimiglia]

Fix included with 8.5

Please reopen if you run into this issue.