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Will upgrading to Android 6 improve your battery life?
It seems that Android 6 reduces battery consumption, but what is it really? We wanted to verify this claim by measuring our favorite applications on a Fairephone2
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Why should you care about your application’s impact on the end user’s battery life?
Smartphones’ battery life is plateauing and the low-battery anxiety phenomenon is rising, so let’s focus on applications’ battery consumption
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Android Memory: the Ultimate Metric Guide
GREENSPECTOR introduces you to the Ultimate Metric Guide to manage your application's memory on Android devices.
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First steps with UI Automator
UI Auto…what ? Like its name states it, UI Automator is a framework provided by Android allowing to execute User Interface (UI) functional tests in an automated way. This framework lets you interact with visible elements of a smartphone screen: click a button, fill a text field, scroll down, etc. Thanks to UI Automator, you […]
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Should you switch your wallpaper to affect less the battery life of your smartphone?
Power consumption of smartphones and tablets screens varies depending on technologies that are used, but also on settings like displayed color
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Android developer’s toolbox: performance tools
Do you wish to control your applications' resources consumption such as CPU, memory, data etc? Discover the performance tools suited for an Android developer
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WebP, PNG, JPEG : Energy battle on Android
What image is the most energy-thrifty on Android? Let's compare WebP, PNG and JPEG formats
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Android: Should you use HashMap or SparseArray?
SparseArrays are they better than HashMaps for your application? Let's compare their memory and energy consumption.
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