On a representative device (e.g., Samsung Galaxy S3 with KitKat 4.4.4), Candy Crush Saga maintained a stable 30–40 FPS, with touch-to-action latency averaging 70–90 ms. This was superior to Android 4.1-4.3, where occasional garbage collection pauses caused stutter.

King’s telemetry data (inferred from public support archives) indicated that crash rates on KitKat were ~1.2% of sessions, compared to ~3.8% on Jelly Bean and ~5.1% on early Lollipop builds.

Leo stared at the small screen of his Android phone. The level was . For three weeks, it had been a wall of purple, green, and orange sugar hell.