compact heirarchy

[michaelneale]

This hopefully increases speed and accuracy by using a more compact plain text format for ui hierarchy vs json

using benchmark.sh it seems a little quicker and more accurate (but still only small numbers of runs).

eg

 FrameLayout [0,0,1280,2856]
     LinearLayout [0,0,1280,2856]
		FrameLayout [0,0,1280,2856]
			 LinearLayout id="com.google.android.apps.maps:id/action_bar_root" [0,0,1280,2856]
				FrameLayout id="android:id/content" [0,0,1280,2856]
					ViewGroup [0,0,1280,2856]

style - with "what is the weather like" is around 13989 chars when first navigating the screen.

old is: 36102 (just characters, not tokens). Likely could be compressed a lot more.

benchmark:

old bench mark:

[DOsinga]

great to see this implemented; I think you mentioned this the other day. One thing I wonder is if we can modify the stats tool to get the token count out too, it would help here I guess. Also the times you are showing do seem to be more all over the place then I typically see.

[michaelneale]

@DOsinga yeah I am not sure the times make sense yet, haven't worked out how to really know when it was completed. I wonder if exact timing less important until we have more scenarios and more passing?