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Android 6 Essentials

You're reading from   Android 6 Essentials Design, build, and create your own applications using the full range of features available in Android 6

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884412
Length 122 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yossi Elkrief Yossi Elkrief
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Power-saving modes


Android 6.0 has added new power-saving modes, Doze and App Standby, prolonged battery life by up to 2 times according to Google's measurements. The Doze mode has been created to improve the sleep efficiency of idle devices, while the App Standby mode has been designed to prevent apps from eating up power while in the idle state. On both occasions, plugging in the device to chargers allows normal operations to resume.

The Doze mode

Dozing is when a device is unplugged, the screen is off, and it's stationary (this can be determined via sensors, such as the accelerometer) for a determined period of time. What we get is a state where the system is kept in the sleep state as long as possible. When an Android 6.0 device is in the Doze mode, not much will happen in the background, as shown in the following figure:

In short, everything you think will happen in the background will not actually happen.

What happens to apps when a device is dozing?

When a device enters the dozing state...

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