# Mobile Energy Efficiency BoK

By Igor Mandrigin · 2019-01-01 · https://255c.org/writing/mobile-energy-efficiency-bok/

A body of knowledge for testing mobile app energy efficiency, written during the Status years.

Historical piece — some technical details may be outdated.

Originally published on [Medium](https://medium.com/@mandrigin/mobile-energy-efficiency-bok-dce36f3787f7). Mirrored 2026-08-22.

Happy New Year everyone!

While working at [Status](https://status.im), 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](https://github.com/status-im/energy-efficient-bok).

Sections of this BoK that have the most interesting parts are:
* [Dev Guide](https://github.com/status-im/energy-efficient-bok/blob/master/ENERGY_GUIDE_DEV.md) — a short document describing what affects energy efficiency and how to test it in development.
* [Using Battery Historian](https://github.com/status-im/energy-efficient-bok/blob/master/QA_Android.md) — how to use [Battery Historian](https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/battery-historian) to test energy efficiency on Android.
* [Testing and interpreting results](https://github.com/status-im/energy-efficient-bok/blob/master/QA.md#introduction).

Special shoutout to [Lukasz](https://github.com/lukaszfryc) for helping putting this BoK together.