PowDroid: Energy Profiling of Android Applications

Fares Bouaffar (1) , Olivier Le Goaer (1) , Adel Noureddine (1)

1 LIUPPA - Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

While the energy efficiency of mobile apps is receiving considerable attention in recent years, Android developers have little tools to assess the energy footprint of their applications. In this paper, we introduce PowDroid, our tool to estimate the energy consumption of Android application. It uses system-wide metrics and does not require access to applications' source code. We run PowDroid on a use-case scenario comparing the energy footprint of applications in different categories.

Mots clés: Energy consumption; Android; Battery drain; Estimation; Tool

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Fares Bouaffar, Olivier Le Goaer, Adel Noureddine. PowDroid: Energy Profiling of Android Applications. 2nd International Workshop on Sustainable Software Engineering (SUSTAINSE), Nov 2021, Melbourne, Australia. ⟨10.1109/ASEW52652.2021.00055⟩. ⟨hal-03380605⟩