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> Are they saying that an application running continuously in the background uses the same amount of battery as an application that's not running at all? A sin
by runeks 7y ago
> Are they saying that an application running continuously in the background uses the same amount of battery as an application that's not running at all?
A single application running in the background probably uses only a small amount of extra power compared to the notification service alone.
However, a couple dozen applications -- all running in the background in order to enable notifications -- probably consume a lot more power than a single service.
- Ajedi32 7y agoThere's also a wide variety of possible implementations of a notification service, and not all of them will necessarily be as power efficient as what Telegram-FOSS does.
- AstralStorm 7y agoAnd Android's battery monitoring should flag them accordingly, not rely on presence of some library.
- ahupp 7y agoIt's not relying on the presence of a library. It's indicating that the app is still running in the background, and thus using more battery.
- DeonPenny 7y agoI can tell you in the old android world. There was a not insignificant chance that 70-80% of apps that needed notifications or syncing did just that.