电量篇

1) Understanding Battery Drain

手机各个硬件模块的耗电量是不一样的,有些模块非常耗电,而有些模块则相对显得耗电量小很多。

电量消耗的计算与统计是一件麻烦而且矛盾的事情,记录电量消耗本身也是一个费电量的事情。唯一可行的方案是使用第三方监测电量的设备,这样才能够获取到真实的电量消耗。

当设备处于待机状态时消耗的电量是极少的,以N5为例,打开飞行模式,可以待机接近1个月。可是点亮屏幕,硬件各个模块就需要开始工作,这会需要消耗很多电量。

使用WakeLock或者JobScheduler唤醒设备处理定时的任务之后,一定要及时让设备回到初始状态。每次唤醒蜂窝信号进行数据传递,都会消耗很多电量,它比WiFi等操作更加的耗电。

2) Battery Historian

Battery Historian是Android 5.0开始引入的新API。通过下面的指令,可以得到设备上的电量消耗信息:

 



$ adb shell dumpsys batterystats > xxx.txt  //得到整个设备的电量消耗信息
$ adb shell dumpsys batterystats > com.package.name > xxx.txt //得到指定app相关的电量消耗信息



 

得到了原始的电量消耗数据之后,我们需要通过Google编写的一个python脚本把数据信息转换成可读性更好的html文件:

 


$ python historian.py xxx.txt > xxx.html



 

打开这个转换过后的html文件,可以看到类似TraceView生成的列表数据,这里的数据信息量很大,这里就不展开了。

3) Track Battery Status & Battery Manager

我们可以通过下面的代码来获取手机的当前充电状态:

 

1. // It is very easy to subscribe to changes to the battery state, but you can get the current  
2. // state by simply passing null in as your receiver.  Nifty, isn't that?  
3. IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED);  
4. Intent batteryStatus = this.registerReceiver(null, filter);  
5. int chargePlug = batteryStatus.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_PLUGGED, -1);  
6. boolean acCharge = (chargePlug == BatteryManager.BATTERY_PLUGGED_AC);  
7. if (acCharge) {  
8.     Log.v(LOG_TAG,“The phone is charging!”);  
9. }



 

在上面的例子演示了如何立即获取到手机的充电状态,得到充电状态信息之后,我们可以有针对性的对部分代码做优化。比如我们可以判断只有当前手机为AC充电状态时 才去执行一些非常耗电的操作。

1. /**
2.  * This method checks for power by comparing the current battery state against all possible
3.  * plugged in states. In this case, a device may be considered plugged in either by USB, AC, or
4.  * wireless charge. (Wireless charge was introduced in API Level 17.)
5.  */  
6. private boolean checkForPower() {  
7. // It is very easy to subscribe to changes to the battery state, but you can get the current  
8. // state by simply passing null in as your receiver.  Nifty, isn't that?  
9. new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED);  
10. this.registerReceiver(null, filter);  
11.   
12. // There are currently three ways a device can be plugged in. We should check them all.  
13. int chargePlug = batteryStatus.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_PLUGGED, -1);  
14. boolean usbCharge = (chargePlug == BatteryManager.BATTERY_PLUGGED_USB);  
15. boolean acCharge = (chargePlug == BatteryManager.BATTERY_PLUGGED_AC);  
16. boolean wirelessCharge = false;  
17. if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) {  
18.         wirelessCharge = (chargePlug == BatteryManager.BATTERY_PLUGGED_WIRELESS);  
19.     }  
20. return (usbCharge || acCharge || wirelessCharge);  
21. }



 

4) Wakelock and Battery Drain

高效的保留更多的电量与不断促使用户使用你的App会消耗电量,这是矛盾的选择题。不过我们可以使用一些更好的办法来平衡两者。

假设你的手机里面装了大量的社交类应用,即使手机处于待机状态,也会经常被这些应用唤醒用来检查同步新的数据信息。Android会不断关闭各种硬件来延长手机的待机时间,首先屏幕会逐渐变暗直至关闭,然后CPU进入睡眠,这一切操作都是为了节约宝贵的电量资源。但是即使在这种睡眠状态下,大多数应用还是会尝试进行工作,他们将不断的唤醒手机。一个最简单的唤醒手机的方法是使用PowerManager.WakeLock的API来保持CPU工作并防止屏幕变暗关闭。这使得手机可以被唤醒,执行工作,然后回到睡眠状态。知道如何获取WakeLock是简单的,可是及时释放WakeLock也是非常重要的,不恰当的使用WakeLock会导致严重错误。例如网络请求的数据返回时间不确定,导致本来只需要10s的事情一直等待了1个小时,这样会使得电量白白浪费了。这也是为何使用带超时参数的wakelock.acquice()方法是很关键的。

但是仅仅设置超时并不足够解决问题,例如设置多长的超时比较合适?什么时候进行重试等等?解决上面的问题,正确的方式可能是使用非精准定时器。通常情况下,我们会设定一个时间进行某个操作,但是动态修改这个时间也许会更好。例如,如果有另外一个程序需要比你设定的时间晚5分钟唤醒,最好能够等到那个时候,两个任务捆绑一起同时进行,这就是非精确定时器的核心工作原理。我们可以定制计划的任务,可是系统如果检测到一个更好的时间,它可以推迟你的任务,以节省电量消耗。

这正是JobScheduler API所做的事情。它会根据当前的情况与任务,组合出理想的唤醒时间,例如等到正在充电或者连接到WiFi的时候,或者集中任务一起执行。我们可以通过这个API实现很多免费的调度算法。

5) Network and Battery Drain

下面内容来自官方Training文档中高效下载章节关于手机(Radio)蜂窝信号对电量消耗的介绍。

通常情况下,使用3G移动网络传输数据,电量的消耗有三种状态:

 

  • Full power: 能量最高的状态,移动网络连接被激活,允许设备以最大的传输速率进行操作。
  • Low power: 一种中间状态,对电量的消耗差不多是Full power状态下的50%。
  • Standby: 最低的状态,没有数据连接需要传输,电量消耗最少。

 

下图是一个典型的3G Radio State Machine的图示(来自AT&T,详情请点击这里):

总之,为了减少电量的消耗,在蜂窝移动网络下,最好做到批量执行网络请求,尽量避免频繁的间隔网络请求。

通过前面学习到的Battery Historian我们可以得到设备的电量消耗数据,如果数据中的移动蜂窝网络(Mobile Radio)电量消耗呈现下面的情况,间隔很小,又频繁断断续续的出现,说明电量消耗性能很不好:

经过优化之后,如果呈现下面的图示,说明电量消耗的性能是良好的:

另外WiFi连接下,网络传输的电量消耗要比移动网络少很多,应该尽量减少移动网络下的数据传输,多在WiFi环境下传输数据。

那么如何才能够把任务缓存起来,做到批量化执行呢?下面就轮到Job Scheduler出场了。

6) Using Job Scheduler

使用Job Scheduler,应用需要做的事情就是判断哪些任务是不紧急的,可以交给Job Scheduler来处理,Job Scheduler集中处理收到的任务,选择合适的时间,合适的网络,再一起进行执行。

下面是使用Job Scheduler的一段简要示例,需要先有一个JobService:

 

1. public class MyJobService extends JobService {  
2. private static final String LOG_TAG = "MyJobService";  
3.   
4. @Override  
5. public void onCreate() {  
6. super.onCreate();  
7. "MyJobService created");  
8.     }  
9.   
10. @Override  
11. public void onDestroy() {  
12. super.onDestroy();  
13. "MyJobService destroyed");  
14.     }  
15.   
16. @Override  
17. public boolean onStartJob(JobParameters params) {  
18. // This is where you would implement all of the logic for your job. Note that this runs  
19. // on the main thread, so you will want to use a separate thread for asynchronous work  
20. // (as we demonstrate below to establish a network connection).  
21. // If you use a separate thread, return true to indicate that you need a "reschedule" to  
22. // return to the job at some point in the future to finish processing the work. Otherwise,  
23. // return false when finished.  
24. "Totally and completely working on job " + params.getJobId());  
25. // First, check the network, and then attempt to connect.  
26. if (isNetworkConnected()) {  
27. new SimpleDownloadTask() .execute(params);  
28. return true;  
29. else {  
30. "No connection on job " + params.getJobId() + "; sad face");  
31.         }  
32. return false;  
33.     }  
34.   
35. @Override  
36. public boolean onStopJob(JobParameters params) {  
37. // Called if the job must be stopped before jobFinished() has been called. This may  
38. // happen if the requirements are no longer being met, such as the user no longer  
39. // connecting to WiFi, or the device no longer being idle. Use this callback to resolve  
40. // anything that may cause your application to misbehave from the job being halted.  
41. // Return true if the job should be rescheduled based on the retry criteria specified  
42. // when the job was created or return false to drop the job. Regardless of the value  
43. // returned, your job must stop executing.  
44. "Whelp, something changed, so I'm calling it on job " + params.getJobId());  
45. return false;  
46.     }  
47.   
48. /**
49.      * Determines if the device is currently online.
50.      */  
51. private boolean isNetworkConnected() {  
52.         ConnectivityManager connectivityManager =  
53.                 (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);  
54.         NetworkInfo networkInfo = connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();  
55. return (networkInfo != null && networkInfo.isConnected());  
56.     }  
57.   
58. /**
59.      *  Uses AsyncTask to create a task away from the main UI thread. This task creates a
60.      *  HTTPUrlConnection, and then downloads the contents of the webpage as an InputStream.
61.      *  The InputStream is then converted to a String, which is logged by the
62.      *  onPostExecute() method.
63.      */  
64. private class SimpleDownloadTask extends AsyncTask<JobParameters, Void, String> {  
65.   
66. protected JobParameters mJobParam;  
67.   
68. @Override  
69. protected String doInBackground(JobParameters... params) {  
70. // cache system provided job requirements  
71. 0];  
72. try {  
73. null;  
74. // Only display the first 50 characters of the retrieved web page content.  
75. int len = 50;  
76.   
77. new URL("https://www.google.com");  
78.                 HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();  
79. 10000); //10sec  
80. 15000); //15sec  
81. "GET");  
82. //Starts the query  
83.                 conn.connect();  
84. int response = conn.getResponseCode();  
85. "The response is: " + response);  
86.                 is = conn.getInputStream();  
87.   
88. // Convert the input stream to a string  
89. null;  
90. new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");  
91. char[] buffer = new char[len];  
92.                 reader.read(buffer);  
93. return new String(buffer);  
94.   
95. catch (IOException e) {  
96. return "Unable to retrieve web page.";  
97.             }  
98.         }  
99.   
100. @Override  
101. protected void onPostExecute(String result) {  
102. false);  
103.             Log.i(LOG_TAG, result);  
104.         }  
105.     }  
106. }



 

然后模拟通过点击Button触发N个任务,交给JobService来处理:

 

    1. public class FreeTheWakelockActivity extends ActionBarActivity {  
    2. public static final String LOG_TAG = "FreeTheWakelockActivity";  
    3.   
    4.     TextView mWakeLockMsg;  
    5.     ComponentName mServiceComponent;  
    6.   
    7. @Override  
    8. protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {  
    9. super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  
    10.         setContentView(R.layout.activity_wakelock);  
    11.   
    12.         mWakeLockMsg = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.wakelock_txt);  
    13. new ComponentName(this, MyJobService.class);  
    14. new Intent(this, MyJobService.class);  
    15.         startService(startServiceIntent);  
    16.   
    17.         Button theButtonThatWakelocks = (Button) findViewById(R.id.wakelock_poll);  
    18.         theButtonThatWakelocks.setText(R.string.poll_server_button);  
    19.   
    20. new View.OnClickListener() {  
    21. @Override  
    22. public void onClick(View v) {  
    23.                     pollServer();  
    24.             }  
    25.         });  
    26.     }  
    27.   
    28. /**
    29.      * This method polls the server via the JobScheduler API. By scheduling the job with this API,
    30.      * your app can be confident it will execute, but without the need for a wake lock. Rather, the
    31.      * API will take your network jobs and execute them in batch to best take advantage of the
    32.      * initial network connection cost.
    33.      *
    34.      * The JobScheduler API works through a background service. In this sample, we have
    35.      * a simple service in MyJobService to get you started. The job is scheduled here in
    36.      * the activity, but the job itself is executed in MyJobService in the startJob() method. For
    37.      * example, to poll your server, you would create the network connection, send your GET
    38.      * request, and then process the response all in MyJobService. This allows the JobScheduler API
    39.      * to invoke your logic without needed to restart your activity.
    40.      *
    41.      * For brevity in the sample, we are scheduling the same job several times in quick succession,
    42.      * but again, try to consider similar tasks occurring over time in your application that can
    43.      * afford to wait and may benefit from batching.
    44.      */  
    45. public void pollServer() {  
    46.         JobScheduler scheduler = (JobScheduler) getSystemService(Context.JOB_SCHEDULER_SERVICE);  
    47. for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {  
    48. new JobInfo.Builder(i, mServiceComponent)  
    49. 5000) // 5 seconds  
    50. 60000) // 60 seconds (for brevity in the sample)  
    51. // WiFi or data connections  
    52.                     .build();  
    53.   
    54. "Scheduling job " + i + "!\n");  
    55.             scheduler.schedule(jobInfo);  
    56.         }  
    57.     }  
    58. }