Tips on Creating Android Apps That Consumes Less Battery Life

With 82.8 percent market share, Android is undoubtedly the most dominating mobile platforms out there. But, despite of the great features that Android mobile device offers, there is one problem that you might face when using an Android-enabled device. Most of the such devices have less battery life compared to iPhone, Windows phone and other Smartphones. Such an issue occurs as the Android phones are not optimized with the latest version of the Android operating system, which helps in reducing power usage.

Usually mobile apps are considered to be the main reason behind the increase in intake of power. So, if you are creating an app, in order to assure its success, you must develop one with minimum power intake. You can hire Android app development companies to implement methods to improve the efficiency of your application model. Or else, there are a few solutions that can help to improve the battery life of an Android app, such as:

1. Improve execution time of a task

Most of the apps retrieve data from the web on a regular basis, which often results in battery drain. This happens since the battery used for a task is directly proportional to its execution time that helps fetch the data from the web and other sources. So, to avoid your phone's battery from draining, you will have to lessen the execution time. You can do so, by abiding the following key tips:

• The very first thing you can do is implement an Asynchronous task, wherein the execute() function is used for executing the “Aysc” task. Let's consider, you have executed two Aysc tasks first A and then B. In that case, B will have to wait to execute till A gets completed. Doing so, will help increase the execution time. And in case, you want them to execute in parallel, then make use of the executeOnExecutor() that will first execute and then B. And so, you won't have to wait for uploading B.

• Make use of interfaces rather than using the broadcast receivers.

• Prioritize data Data using XML and Json, so as to optimize it for mobile.

2. Optimize API data

In order to optimize the API data, follow these suggestions:

• Make sure to access the data required to be used in the application.

• To reduce execution time, reduce the bytes of data that you need to fetch.

• Avoid use of length tags such as “product_description” can be written as 'pd' when you have decided to build a web service.

• Make sure to optimize the images in the API and make them optimized for mobile.

3. Kill background process

This the most obvious one. The background process running in an Android phone consumes a lot of power than other activities. Irrespective of the fact that background processes are only implemented when some app is needed, it still consumes a lot of battery. Make sure to kill background processes, including live updates, alarm clock and many other popular background processes. You can reduce background processes using the following considerations:

• You can get rid of the background process on your phone's screen-off mode, but remember that this won't be applicable for the apps that runs live updates. However, you can choose to enable or disable live updates for such apps on screen-off mode.

• When using GPS location, opt for using Google play services 3.2 since it makes use of less battery life to run location update.

Final Words

Hope that the above discussed tips will prove useful in helping you create an app that consumes less power and ensures maximum efficiency.