We’ve known for some time now that Android Marshmallow is going to greatly improve the ability of the Android operating system to save battery power during idle periods – early tests on a Nexus 5 were extremely encouraging. One new feature that has been included in the Android Marshmallow Developer Preview 3 which doesn’t directly affect these new power saving capabilities, but will help track it, is the addition of the milliamp-hours used counter. Hidden in the battery stats, each app now has an additional metric called “Computed power use” which adds up how much of your battery it has been eating up – a nice tool in case some of your apps are particularly power hungry.
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- Image credit: Android Police
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- Image credit: Android Police
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- Image credit: Android Police
We don’t know exactly how accurate this new metric is – for lack of a better example, we’d equate it to the accuracy of data usage on Android devices – but it’s a nice way to give a more quantitative representation. We’ll have to see whether “computed power use” makes it into the final cut of Android Marshmallow as a similar feature was seen on the Android L Preview before it disappeared as well.
What do you think about this new feature in Android Marshmallow Developer Preview 3? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Google+ via Android Police
