In today’s world, there are apps for practically everything you need to do. Mobile application developers have created zillion apps that can cater to just about any need under the sun. The increase in smartphone usage has also created an opportunity for app developers to create unique apps that solves different needs. However, these apps can be quiet challenging to use due to their level of power consumption which can make customers leave negative feedback about the app various feedback platforms like Google, Youtube, Yelp, among others or even decide to delete or uninstall them. In order to reduce this challenge, mobile app developers are constantly on the lookout for new ways to optimize memory usage, performance and energy consumption. Here are 3 key energy savings tricks to optimize smartphone performance.
Another biggest consumer of energy on mobile devices are wireless communication components like WLAN, GSM, 3G. Network interfaces constitute over 40 percent of energy consumption on mobile apps. However, one way to limit their usage and avoid battery drain is by designing your backend server to have a burst transfer of data rather than periodic data transfer. This is because periodic data transfers are resource inefficient. In addition, you can make use of data caching as a way of reducing frequent communication with the server and the amount of data transferred through a network.
The display is one of the biggest bugs that consume power on mobile apps. In fact, research has shown that with all components running at its peak, LCD display consumes up to 5percent of power usage on mobile apps. However, app developers can tune down on this by taking advantage of smartphone operating systems that are designed to dim display automatically when there is no input from the user. In addition, an app developer who creates video apps that consumes a lot of battery can also leverage the image brightness and display settings on mobile apps that are always set to default and achieve a perceived level of brightness by brightening the image while dimming the display vice versa.
When you optimize an app for power usage, you are also improving its performance. One way to optimize your app for performance and also reduce battery usage is by decreasing CPU use. This can be done by simply reducing the number of frames per second for game-based apps, understanding the hardware configuration of your target device, using cloud offloading to partition mobile apps and using LookUp Tables for common issues that may arise during complex computations.
Finally, the increase in smartphone usage has created an opportunity for mobile app developers to create unique apps designed to meet users’ needs. However, no customers want an app that consumes battery so much. Therefore it is vital for mobile app developers to follow the steps listed above in optimizing processes and reducing battery usage when creating a mobile app. Do you know how much energy your app consumes? Let us figure it out for you! Contact us now!