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Battery drain

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

nounCommon term

In mobile app development, battery drain means: Faster than normal battery use caused by an app, for example through constant location tracking, frequent network calls or work that keeps running in the background.

In Turkish: pil tüketimi, aşırı pil tüketimi

How it is used

Users complain about battery drain in store reviews, and both platforms show which apps use the most battery. Android's Doze mode and the background limits on iOS exist largely to reduce it. Developers check energy use with Xcode's tools and the Android Studio profiler.

Example sentences

  1. Several reviews mention battery drain since we added live location sharing.

  2. The battery drain comes from a timer that keeps running after the user leaves the screen.

Common collocations

  • battery drain
  • drain the battery
  • battery usage
  • energy impact
  • backgroundThe state of an app that is still running or kept in memory but is not visible on the screen, for example after the user switches to another app.
  • memory leakA bug in which an app keeps memory it no longer needs, so memory use grows over time until the app slows down or the system closes it.
  • syncTo make the data on the device and on the server the same by sending local changes and downloading new ones; short for synchronize.

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