Google wants to address excessive app battery drain with a new wake lock metric in the Android Vitals dashboard. Google is partnering with device makers to pinpoint causes of excessive wake locks to ...

A forthcoming Play Store notice will say alert users to battery-draining apps. The tag, scheduled for 1 March 2026, will shove affected Android apps down store rankings and remove them from discovery ...

Google will now label battery draining apps in the Google Play store. Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It's happened to all of us. You fully charge your smartphone battery ...

The metric flags apps that keep devices awake for more than two hours in a 24-hour period. Apps with over 5% excessive wake lock sessions will be classified as high battery drain. Developers are ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

It's happened to all of us. You fully charge your smartphone battery because you know you'll be out for the whole day and, somehow, your battery dies. Your smartphone doesn't always run out of charge ...