Category: Technical Zone

How I improved the efficiency of an Android system app (and why)

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It’s not every morning that an Android developer decides to challenge the core of their favourite OS. The AOSP (Android Open Source Project) code comes straight out from Google’s factories in Palo Alto. It’s not perfect, but it’s deemed effective and reliable enough to serve as the heart of more than 1.4 billion smartphones worldwide.

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Raspberry Pi 3 : Is it worth for energy efficiency ?

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The Raspberry Pi 3 is out. This is good news for Pi lovers, because #3 brings more features and more performance. But energy is important if you want to use it on battery. How about its energy efficiency?

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Why you should measure the energy consumption of your software

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The page load time has for long been the key (and sole) indicator for optimizing websites. This has helped to improve many sites, or at least to structure the domain of web optimization by being a universally shared metric. Fine. But have we gone as far as we could get? Couldn’t other metrics help us go further?

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