On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote:
> And users want good > battery life which conflicts with "free-range multi-tasking". As an > Android user you know better than me, but I've read anecdotal reports > about some Android apps sucking a lot of power - and that's probably > just regular usage. (...) And for iOS 5.0, I think Apple will > add data download through non-visible push notifications - opening up > to developers what iOS has used for email, address book and calendar > updates since iOS 3 (I think). > What are these power-sucking apps actually doing? I haven't had a problem with battery life going down unexpectedly, but maybe I'm just not running a lot of stuff in the background. For those who regularly poll web services, since Android 2.2, apps have been able to use Cloud to Device Messaging, which is what Google apps such as Gmail, Calendar, etc. have used for push notifications. This can considerably decrease battery usage, but I don't get the impression there's been a lot of adoption (even Google Listen, a podcast application, doesn't use it, even though it seems like an obvious usecase). Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
