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“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P

posted by mrpg on Friday August 03 2018, @03:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-have-the-talk dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

With the last version of the Android P Developer Preview released, we're quickly heading toward the final build of another major Android version. And for Android P—aka version 9.0—battery life is a major focus. The Adaptive Battery feature will dole out background access to only the apps you use, a new auto brightness scheme has been devised, and the Android team has made changes to how background work runs on the CPU. All together, battery life should be batter (err, better) than ever.

To get a bit more detail about how all this works, we sat down with a pair of Android engineers: Benjamin Poiesz, group product manager for the Android Framework, and Tim Murray, a senior staff software engineer for Android. And over the course of our second fireside Android chat, we learned a bit more about Android P overall and some specific things about how Google goes about diagnosing and tracking battery life across the range of the OS' install base.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @03:55AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @03:55AM (#716545)

    I'm really excited to try out the new Oreo 8.0! I'm hoping my phone's manufacturer decides to release the update to my carrier, who will then maybe consider letting me have it as an update to my phone just before I'm ready to upgrade to another one.

    Maybe the next phone I get will let me experience the futuristic update to Oreo, 8.1!

    I hate the iOS walled garden, but Apple got OS updates right. The fact that this is even still an issue is pathetic. And consumers just don't care enough to demand change.

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday August 03 2018, @05:08AM (1 child)

    by anubi (2828) on Friday August 03 2018, @05:08AM (#716564) Journal

    And consumers just don't care enough to demand change.

    I believe Microsoft should have trained us by now that change is not necessarily a good thing.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]

    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday August 03 2018, @01:17PM

      by RS3 (6367) on Friday August 03 2018, @01:17PM (#716674)

      Microsoft have made most of the public into sheep by training consumers to have no opinions and just accept the changes software companies choose for us.

  • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday August 03 2018, @02:34PM (1 child)

    by richtopia (3160) on Friday August 03 2018, @02:34PM (#716720) Homepage Journal

    Perhaps you should look for a Android One device. I hate recommending purchasing new phones, and am not terribly fond of Android, but at least Google has recognized the problem you describe and is doing something about it:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One [wikipedia.org]

    If I were shopping for a phone I would look hard at the Mi2 Lite. Yes I'm paranoid about privacy with a Xiaomi device, but Android One mandates vanilla Android, so there all better? And really, what phone manufacturer do you trust?

    https://www.banggood.com/Xiaomi-Mi-A2-Lite-Global-Version-5_84-inch-4GB-RAM-64GB-ROM-Snapdragon-625-Octa-core-4G-Smartphone-p-1315269.html?rmmds=search&ID=224&cur_warehouse=HK [banggood.com]