How android app developers manage power consumption?

Bao, Lingfeng; Lo, David; Xia, Xin; Wang, Xinyu; Tian, Cong

doi:10.1145/2901739.2901748

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“…Privacy has received a lot of attention by several investigations on various artefacts, such as source code and configuration files [21,38,40,42,46], application programming interfaces (API) [62], and project documentation [61]. Other studies focused on the energy efficiency of an application [2,49]. Although these solutions are related, they do not specifically consider security, privacy, or energy efficiency as values.…”

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“…Several other dashboards have also been developed using artefacts from software repositories [11,23,24,44]. In terms of values in software development artefacts, previous studies have investigated a few values, such as security [1,16,54,67], privacy [21,38,40,42,46,61,62], or energy efficiency [2,49]. Although these works not specifically addressed security, privacy, or energy efficiency as values, the works show the possibility to discover values in the artefacts.…”

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Towards a Human Values Dashboard for Software Development

Nurwidyantoro

Shahin

Chaudron

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 15th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

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Background: There is a growing awareness of the importance of human values (e.g., inclusiveness, privacy) in software systems. However, there are no practical tools to support the integration of human values during software development. We argue that a tool that can identify human values from software development artefacts and present them to varying software development roles can (partially) address this gap. We refer to such a tool as human values dashboard. Further to this, our understanding of such a tool is limited. Aims: This study aims to (1) investigate the possibility of using a human values dashboard to help address human values during software development, (2) identify possible benefits of using a human values dashboard, and (3) elicit practitioners' needs from a human values dashboard. Method: We conducted an exploratory study by interviewing 15 software practitioners. A dashboard prototype was developed to support the interview process. We applied thematic analysis to analyse the collected data. Results: Our study finds that a human values dashboard would be useful for the development team (e.g., project manager, developer, tester). Our participants acknowledge that development artefacts, especially requirements documents and issue discussions, are the most suitable source for identifying values for the dashboard. Our study also yields a set of high-level user requirements for a human values dashboard (e.g., it shall allow determining values priority of a project). Conclusions: Our study suggests that a values dashboard is potentially used to raise awareness of values and support valuesbased decision-making in software development. Future work will

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Towards a Human Values Dashboard for Software Development

Nurwidyantoro

Shahin

Chaudron

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 15th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

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“…The study results show that AlarmManager, LocationListener, PowerManager, and BroadCastReceiver related APIs were widely discussed among the developers. In addition to StackOverflow data, the GitHub commits were used as a data source in the study conducted by Moura et al 34 and Bao et al 35 . In Moura et al, 34 the energy‐related commits were extracted from GitHub and analyzed using thematic analysis.…”

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“…The authors have considered a wide spectrum of application domain and identified that there is more number of OS‐level commits compared to application‐level commits. In a subsequent study, Bao et al 35 focused specifically on the Android platform related to energy‐aware commits. The authors have used the open card sorting method 42 to organize the obtained data related to Android energy‐aware commits.…”

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“…There is no study on identifying the developers' perspectives on Android battery optimization to the best of our knowledge. On the other hand, several studies are published on mining StackOverflow 31‐33 and GitHub 34,35 to get useful insights about energy‐saving opportunities in Android applications. However, these studies are not focusing on the impact of battery optimization on the existing Android applications.…”

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How do open source app developers perceive API changes related to Android battery optimization? An empirical study

2020

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There is an increasing interest shown by researchers and developers in reducing the battery consumption of Android applications. Recently, the battery optimization features such as doze mode, app standby, background execution limits, and background location limits were introduced in the form of API changes. According to the API changes, application developers have to change their source code to manage the behavioral changes caused by operating system limitations. These battery optimization features are evolving rapidly, and the apps show unexpected behaviors until updating the source code. Also, developers find it difficult to cope with the changes. Therefore, there is a need to understand the behavioral changes, application developer's perceptions, and response patterns on the API changes to plan upcoming battery optimization features. In this article, we have collected the relevant GitHub issues from 225 open‐source Android repositories and performed a thematic analysis of collected data. This study analyzes the 391 related issues to answer three research questions. This study's important finding is that developers often post issues related to delayed app notifications, inconsistent background location updates, and suspended background tasks, and so on. We found that library developers are showing a quick response to API changes compared with application developers.

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Catalog of energy patterns for mobile applications

Cruz

Abreu

2019

Empir Software Eng

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Software engineers make use of design patterns for reasons that range from performance to code comprehensibility. Several design patterns capturing the body of knowledge of best practices have been proposed in the past, namely creational, structural and behavioral patterns. However, with the advent of mobile devices, it becomes a necessity a catalog of design patterns for energy efficiency. In this work, we inspect commits, issues and pull requests of 1027 Android and 756 iOS apps to identify common practices when improving energy efficiency. This analysis yielded a catalog, available online, with 22 design patterns related to improving the energy efficiency of mobile apps. We argue that this catalog might be of relevance to other domains such as Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things. As a side contribution, an analysis of the differences between Android and iOS devices shows that the Android community is more energy-aware.RQ2: How different are mobile app practices addressing energy efficiency across different platforms?We found that Android developers have higher awareness towards energy efficiency improvement than iOS developers. We show the prevalence of each energy pattern in the two platforms and discuss potential causes. This paper makes the following contributions:-We propose a catalog of energy patterns with a detailed description and instructions for mobile app developers and designers. It is available online: https: //tqrg.github.io/energy-patterns, and we welcome contributions from the community as pull request. -We provide a dataset with 1563 commits, issues, and pull requests in which mobile app development practitioners address the energy efficiency of their apps. The dataset and collection tools are available online: https://github. com/TQRG/energy-patterns.-We compare energy efficiency awareness in mobile app development in different platforms (viz. Android and iOS).1 StackOverflow is a collaborative Web platform for questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming.

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How android app developers manage power consumption?

Cited by 25 publications

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Towards a Human Values Dashboard for Software Development

Towards a Human Values Dashboard for Software Development

How do open source app developers perceive API changes related to Android battery optimization? An empirical study

Catalog of energy patterns for mobile applications

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