Mobile Energy Efficiency BoK
Historical piece — some technical details may be outdated.
Originally published on Medium. Mirrored Aug 22, 2026.
Happy New Year everyone!
While working at Status, I put together a small guide on testing energy efficiency of a mobile app.
Of course, some of the parts there are Status-specific, but there is enough information useful for the general public.
Here is it: https://github.com/status-im/energy-efficient-bok.
Sections of this BoK that have the most interesting parts are:
* Dev Guide — a short document describing what affects energy efficiency and how to test it in development.
* Using Battery Historian — how to use Battery Historian to test energy efficiency on Android.
* Testing and interpreting results.
Special shoutout to Lukasz for helping putting this BoK together.