BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV3I7059,
     title={An Empirical Study on Power Optimization for Android based Mobile Devices},
     author={Madhurashree V N and Dr. Swarnalatha K S},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={3},
     number={7},
     pages={184--190},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV3I7059.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

The current lifestyle of humans involves a wide range of electronic gadgets. The dependencies on mobile devices like laptops, smartphones, tablets and wearables for everyday activities have outburst and raised an urge to improve the battery life of such devices. The demand for thin and light weight devices restricts the battery size and capacity embodied to these devices. The advancements with respect to the mobile applications are way too quick compared to the innovations in the battery technology. All these factors impose the need for power optimization techniques. This paper gives overview of development of Android operating system, identifies the major power draining sinks of a generic mobile device and summarizes the various techniques the application developers should be aware of before developing mobile applications which utilize the available power wisely and provides best user experience. The techniques general for all the mobile devices irrespective of the operating system and the techniques specific to Android based devices are discussed briefly. The impact of the generic optimization techniques for the mobile device is discussed with the help of the data obtained by the experiments. This study comes handy for Android application developers. It also benefits other operating system developers to achieve software optimization for their mobile applications.

Mobile Devices, Android, Power Optimization