Add an FPS counter to Unity8 for yourself

[UniSuperBox]

Just logging something for posterity, maybe someone will find it useful.

You can add this to the end of Unity8's Shell.qml, but before the final closing brace, to get a (somewhat accurate) FPS counter:

    Label {
        id: fpsCounter
        property real t
        property int frame: 0
        color: "red"
        text: "? Hz"
        z: 9999
        textSize: Label.XLarge

        anchors {
            top: parent.top
            left: parent.left
        }

        Timer {
            id: fpsTimer
            property real fps: 0
            repeat: true
            interval: 1000
            running: true
            onTriggered: {
                parent.text = "FPS: " + fpsTimer.fps + " Hz"
                fps = fpsCounter.frame
                fpsCounter.frame = 0
            }
        }

        NumberAnimation on t {
            id: tAnim
            from: 0
            to: 100
            loops: Animation.Infinite
        }

        onTChanged: {
            update() // force continuous animation
            ++frame
        }
    }

I'm not interested in making this a "feature" per se, but it's useful for testing if you like.

Please don't do this on your device, it will get in the way and cause a bunch of CPU and GPU load.

[kugiigi]

I'm interested with the results of each device. So far, in my experience, Nexus 5 is much smoother than bq E5 and MX4. I migh try this one of these days