Hi, Certification is just another dubious method of extracting money from developers, creating artificial barriers to entry, that only the richer can afford to jump.
Windows and Symbian is probably better if that is how you want to spend your money. There is plenty of reminders & recommendations about being mindful of power usage for applications in this forum and its mentioned in the sdk, it seems to be one of the fundamental tenets of mobile app development regardless of the platform. See for example http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/seamlessness.html Regards On Mar 6, 3:37 am, brs <bernhard.r.su...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the idea is that the market should pretty much be the wild- > west and user feedback should eventually sort out the good, the bad > and the ugly. There might be some room for a third-party to provide > app audit & certification services. If there is every going to be an > enterprise class Android based phone, the interest for such things > might increase. > > Writing power-efficient apps can be quite tricky, specially for people > like myself who are new to mobile application development. As > developers get a better feel for the real hardware, I would hope > things are going to improve. For example careless use of the location > service can drain the battery in no time. When trying to find out > which app is doing what in the background, keep an eye on the status > indicators (GPS, bluetooth, wifi, cell data) as well as run logcat and > top through adb. > > To check what is going on when the phone isn't attached to a computer, > I wrote an app (NetMeter on the market) to plot CPU and network > activity as well as display the list of CPU consuming tasks. If > anybody has a way to monitor the logs from app, that would be very > useful as well. > > Bernhard > > On Mar 5, 12:31 am, Stanley Cai <stanley.w....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I got a dev phone and installed plenty of applications, but the > > battery was used out in 7~8hours, even not enough for over-night. I > > guess some applications, which had permission to prevent system from > > sleeping, killed the battery. > > > So I am very curious if Google will have any application > > criteria/certification for the developers, especially for the power > > usage. > > > Thanks a lot, > > -stanley --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
