Posted by Karan Jhavar – Product Supervisor, Android Frameworks, and Dan Brown – Product Supervisor, Google Play

Android has lengthy championed efficiency, repeatedly evolving to ship distinctive consumer experiences. Constructing upon years of refinement, we’re now specializing in pinpointing resource-intensive use circumstances and growing platform-level options that profit all customers, throughout the huge Android ecosystem.

Because the launch of Android vitals in Play Console in 2017, Play has been investing in offering fleet-wide visibility into efficiency points, making it simpler to determine and repair issues as they happen. At this time, Android and Google Play are taking a big step ahead in partnership with high OEMs, like Samsung, leveraging their real-world insights into extreme useful resource consumption. Our shared aim is to make Android improvement extra streamlined and constant by offering a standardized definition of what good and nice seems like on the subject of technical high quality.

“Samsung is worked up to collaborate with Android and Google Play on these new efficiency metrics. By sharing our consumer expertise insights, we intention to assist builders construct actually optimized apps that ship distinctive efficiency and battery life throughout the ecosystem. We consider this collaboration will result in a extra constant and optimistic expertise for all Android customers.”

– Samsung

We’re embarking on a multi-year plan to empower you with the instruments and knowledge you might want to perceive, diagnose, and enhance your app’s useful resource consumption, leading to happier and extra engaged customers, each to your app, and Android as a complete.

At this time, we’re launching the primary of those new metrics in beta: extreme wake locks. This metric immediately addresses probably the most vital frustrations for Android customers – extreme battery drain. By optimizing your app’s wake lock conduct, you possibly can considerably improve battery life and consumer satisfaction.

The Android vitals beta metric reviews partial wake lock use as extreme when the entire partial wake locks, added collectively, run for greater than 3 hours in a 24-hour interval. The present iteration of extreme wake lock metrics tracks time provided that the wake lock is held when the app is within the background and doesn’t have a foreground service.

These new metrics will present complete, fleet-wide visibility into efficiency and battery life, equipping builders with the info wanted to diagnose and resolve efficiency bottlenecks. We now have additionally revamped our wake lock documentation which shares efficient wake lock implementation methods and greatest practices.

As well as, we’re additionally launching the extreme wake lock metric documentation to offer clear steerage on decoding the metrics. We extremely encourage builders to take a look at this web page and supply suggestions with their use case on this new metric. Your enter is invaluable in refining these metrics earlier than their common availability. On this beta section, we’re actively in search of suggestions on the metric definition and the way it aligns together with your app’s use circumstances. As soon as we attain common availability, we’ll discover Play Retailer remedies to assist customers select apps that meet their wants.

Later this 12 months, we might introduce further metrics in Android vitals highlighting further crucial efficiency points.

Thanks to your ongoing dedication to delivering pleasant, quick, and high-performance experiences to customers throughout your complete Android ecosystem.