Weeks ago, when we finally learned all the details of Android 5.0 Lollipop, one of the novelties is battery boost in 90 minutes thanks to a new functionality. Now the question remains of what this new functionality means, and apart from this, what news we have related so that the life of the battery of our phone or tablet is prolonged enough to surprise us.
We already know the improvements in terms of design, one of its greatest qualities and that will ensure that the interaction with Android is of higher quality, but it is not all the "pretty" that makes Lollipop stand out. Next we will try to know a little about the battery, a vital issue today in an Android terminal.
More pixels, higher resolution and bigger screens and what about the battery?
While we are watching how the trend is now bring phones with older screens, with higher pixel density and higher resolutions, it seems that the battery has been left to a secondary role, when it is vital for day to day, what is the use of having the highest resolution if you arrive at the right day with a terminal of more than € 500?
Still we must charge the phones every day, smartwatches are in the same boat, and tablets differ by having a larger dimension that allows them to carry batteries of greater size and capacity. So we are still having problems and for this reason the news of Lollipop, some are directed to the help of the user and developers. Android 5.0 will increase the battery capacity according to Google itself.
Volta project
This project called Volta comes to replace Project Butter and Project Svelte, one was designed to make the Android interface lighter and the other to make Android run without less RAM.
Google knows how Android "woke up" on numerous occasions, the so called wakelocks, which can hit a good many occasions in a few minutes, when you're supposed to be "asleep" using the least amount of battery power. Let's say that the processes were "awakened" causing the radio to check the incoming data, and for this very reason the Volta Project has created a new API "JoScheduler", designed to reduce these tasks and processes by doing a more efficient work in general terms. .
ART and more ART
ART brings us higher performance in general for Android, since apps and processes load in less time. As it is more efficient than the runtime it replaces, such as Dalvik, the device does not take so long to load the apps, therefore, the CPU is not operating at its maximum performance for so long, leading to not using the battery as much and saving a good percentage of it.
Ars Technica brought to the fore a demonstration of how this happened on a Nexus 5 with Android L, and the conclusion was as battery improved by 36%, which is two more hours to use the phone. It should be noted that this demo was made without the Batery saver feature, as it has an effect on the overall performance of the terminal.
The Lollipop launch delay
Now we can understand the Lollipop launch delay because of the battery problem with the WiFi. If one of the effects that Google wanted to achieve when launching Lollipop is that users were surprised by the reality of a longer battery life, this bug would have eliminated it, so it was very consequential that they took a few days to fix it and delay the output of this great version of Android.
With two days to go, we are looking forward to trying Lollipop on the Nexus. A whole major update that is full of new features, apart from what is its new visual aspect within what is Material Design.