Google wants to address excessive app battery drain with a new wake lock metric in the Android Vitals dashboard. Google is partnering with device makers to pinpoint causes of excessive wake locks to ...

Google will now label battery draining apps in the Google Play store. Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It's happened to all of us. You fully charge your smartphone battery ...

Google is tackling Android battery drain by introducing a new metric to track excessive wake locks in apps. Collaboration with smartphone manufacturers like Samsung will enhance app optimization to ...

The metric flags apps that keep devices awake for more than two hours in a 24-hour period. Apps with over 5% excessive wake lock sessions will be classified as high battery drain. Developers are ...

Google had first announced in April and again in November of last year that the company would take action against apps that excessively drain smartphone battery life. Now the corporation is ...

Google Play is tightening control on how Android apps use wake locks, linking poor behaviour to store visibility. A new “Excessive Partial Wake Lock” metric in Android Vitals now guides developers, ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...