Comments on: What they don’t tell you about Android & the HTC Hero http://www.artiss.co.uk/2010/02/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-android-the-htc-hero And the flowers are still standing! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:50:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: andrew http://www.artiss.co.uk/2010/02/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-android-the-htc-hero/comment-page-1#comment-922 andrew Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:59:13 +0000 http://www.artiss.co.uk/?p=2399#comment-922 Great advice for the potential purchaser. One thing about killing apps: whether you exit an appcleanly, or switch to something else, the OS decides whether to keep an app in memory ready to run. Well written apps should not drain your battery when you aren't using them. However there is no barrier to stop badly written apps getting onto the Market. A really bad app can drain battery just from being installed on the phone. From Android 1.6, there is a system function to explain what is using up the battery. This helps in evicting bad apps from the ecosystem. iPhone doesn't have these problems, because you can't have background apps. I prefer Android's approach... Great advice for the potential purchaser. One thing about killing apps: whether you exit an appcleanly, or switch to something else, the OS decides whether to keep an app in memory ready to run. Well written apps should not drain your battery when you aren’t using them. However there is no barrier to stop badly written apps getting onto the Market. A really bad app can drain battery just from being installed on the phone.

From Android 1.6, there is a system function to explain what is using up the battery. This helps in evicting bad apps from the ecosystem.

iPhone doesn’t have these problems, because you can’t have background apps. I prefer Android’s approach…

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