Android L improves the autonomy of the equipment by up to 36%

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Android L improves the autonomy of the equipment by up to 36%

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July 2, 2014

Android L battery

One of the points on which more emphasis was made in the past days for Google developers was related to improvements in the battery consumption. Through Project Volta, those of Mountain View launched various mechanisms to improve energy efficiency with Android L and it seems that efforts have paid off. The developer version has registered improvements of up to 36% autonomy in the same device on Kitkat.

It was from Jelly Bean when Google began working on each evolution of its mobile operating system through concrete projects. He Project Butter he managed to improve the response of the system to the touch control, so that its operation became smoother and more fluid. With Android 4.4 Kitkat, the Project Svelte He sought to optimize the OS to run on terminals and tablets with limited technical resources. Finally, the Project Volta, as suggested by the search engine company, is able to provide us with up to 90 extra minutes of autonomy.

Ars Technica consumption tests with Android L

First, Ars Technica proved the autonomy of Android 4.4.4 on a Nexus 5, leaving the screen on and loading a web every 15 seconds. Then we proceeded to install the Android L preview in the same unit and, with the same brightness adjustment as before, the same test was carried out. The result was as follows:

Android L vs Kitkat battery test

The difference could be set in a 36% more autonomy when the Nexus 5 worked with the latest version of the Android system.

Background work, one of the keys

As explained in Android Authority, one of the keys to this improvement in battery performance has to do with the optimization of applications that work in the background, and now organize their activity in a way joint when they need to start the processor to perform some operation. In this way the chip group your answer instead of having to answer the requests one by one.

In this other article we offer you more concrete details of the improvements that Android L has introduced in battery management.