S3: A Study on the Efficiency of Current Power-Saving Approaches Used Among Android-Application Development & Usage Stages

Abstract

A common issue that is shared among android smartphones users was and still related to saving their batteries power and to avoid the need of using any recharging resources. A big number of researches were conducted in the general field of "Saving Energy in Android Smartphones". Another big number of researches were also conducted in the sub-field of "Saving Energy in Android Smartphones at the Application Layer". Both fields did generate a good amount of proposed methodologies, models, frameworks and algorithms that were provided as market products or approaches. However, this paper will focus only on the applications layer and the main role of this layer in saving the power of an android smartphone’s battery. A review of the relevant existing literature is provided herein specifically covering various energy-saving techniques and tools proposed by various authors for Android smartphones.