Facebook Lite Battery Usage
By
Arif Rahman
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Jun 20, 2017
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Facebook
Today is the International No Facebook Day. Is Facebook application truly a "bloatware"? Is Facebook Lite lighter? Facebook Lite Battery Usage - Does Facebook lite save your smart device battery?
Today is the International No Facebook Day. This day's purpose is to combat versus the addition of "cyber dependance." In truth, every four months, Facebook releases a brand-new report on users' stats, and the numbers are rather self-explanatory. During the Fourth trimester of 2016, 1.86 billion were active monthly, with an overall of 1.15 billion exclusively active on their smart device.
The chances are that you are among these Facebook users. For that reason, I should ask you a concern: Do you even Lite? Facebook Lite was first released in January 2015 in countries like Vietnam, Nepal, Bangladesh, South Africa or Sri Lanka. The application has now more than 200 million active users all around the world. Why?
Although this procedure is the most basic of all, it is nonetheless the most essential of all. To continue, I ran a couple of steps on the phone before installing any Facebook application. The only value we have to view is the Platform Discharge Speed: 90.17 µAh/ s. This number represents just how much capacity (expressed in µAh) the battery loses per second. To be more representative, we could say that a phone with a battery capability of 3,000 mAh would last approximately 9h15 (= 3,000 * 1,000/ (90.17 * 3,600)). Now that we have our base, we can begin some measures in our case study: Facebook.
Now let's delve into our 2nd part, which is the measurement of Facebook Lite. The process was the very same; I used theGREENSPECTOR Criteria Runner on the application (version 29.0.0.7.72) downloaded as an APK from the Web (sadly this variation of Facebook is still not available in France, where I am at the minute). Before even running the Benchmark Runner, I noticed a first distinction between the 2 APKs. In reality, the main one weighed 52.56 MB and took more than 10 seconds to set up, whereas the Lite APK weights 1.5 MB and is installed immediately.
Throughout this study, we have verified that Facebook Lite is undoubtedly (a lot) less consuming in regards to Data exchanged on the network, as it is expected to be. Also, we likewise confirmed that this variation is lighter in every way. The memory and platform CPU being decreased at the same time, the influence on the battery life is reduced by more than 50%. Obviously, changing to this application has an expense: the interface is not that excellent, and you can not play videos on this variation. And now it's up to you to weigh the pros and cons and pick your side: To Lite or not to Lite?
Today is the International No Facebook Day. This day's purpose is to combat versus the addition of "cyber dependance." In truth, every four months, Facebook releases a brand-new report on users' stats, and the numbers are rather self-explanatory. During the Fourth trimester of 2016, 1.86 billion were active monthly, with an overall of 1.15 billion exclusively active on their smart device.
The chances are that you are among these Facebook users. For that reason, I should ask you a concern: Do you even Lite? Facebook Lite was first released in January 2015 in countries like Vietnam, Nepal, Bangladesh, South Africa or Sri Lanka. The application has now more than 200 million active users all around the world. Why?
Facebook Lite Interfaces
Although the application is referred to as an option for users with low-bandwidth, some individuals began to download it, not since of the lowered data intake, but after facing lots of performance and autonomy issues on their smart device. Is Facebook truly a "bloatware"? Is Facebook Lite lighter? I wished to check that using my preferred tool: GREENSPECTOR. Without further ado, let's start with the most decisive action: Measurement!MEASUREMENT
For this part, I opted to use a Nexus 6 running Android 5 Marshmallow. I chose to divide the study into two parts: 1. Referral test: This test is truly crucial. Indeed, to be able to utilize the outcomes of the measure, we need to get the minimal energy usage of the device with nothing else than the OS running. We call this step the Reference. 2. Facebook: In the 2nd part, we will have a look at both applications Facebook and Facebook Lite, by determining their energy intake with GREENSPECTOR.
REFERENCE TEST: Facebook Lite Battery Usage
Although this procedure is the most basic of all, it is nonetheless the most essential of all. To continue, I ran a couple of steps on the phone before installing any Facebook application. The only value we have to view is the Platform Discharge Speed: 90.17 µAh/ s. This number represents just how much capacity (expressed in µAh) the battery loses per second. To be more representative, we could say that a phone with a battery capability of 3,000 mAh would last approximately 9h15 (= 3,000 * 1,000/ (90.17 * 3,600)). Now that we have our base, we can begin some measures in our case study: Facebook.FACEBOOK VS LITE
To measure the usage of resources of the applications, I utilized the GREENSPECTOR essential tool called Benchmark Runner. This tool is used for benchmarking website and Android applications, which is exactly what we need. I ran the Criteria Runner on the Official Facebook Application( version 111.0.0.18.69), installed from the Google Play Store. The application is introduced, we pass the connection screen, then we closed down the app, and we start determining usages.The contrast between the Reference test, and with the Facebook app running.
We can see an essential point: the Platform Discharge Speed is about 225.50 µAh/ s That's 150% more than the Reference value! Is this a big deal? Well, yes. This usage occurs when the app is closed, since of some services running in the background. This implies that whatever the usage you will have to the application, this excess consumption will always exist, and can just be mounted to the various feature's impacts when you will use them. Equated into battery life span, this means that our gadget, which was expected to last more than 9 hours, would get down in a little less than 3h45!Now let's delve into our 2nd part, which is the measurement of Facebook Lite. The process was the very same; I used theGREENSPECTOR Criteria Runner on the application (version 29.0.0.7.72) downloaded as an APK from the Web (sadly this variation of Facebook is still not available in France, where I am at the minute). Before even running the Benchmark Runner, I noticed a first distinction between the 2 APKs. In reality, the main one weighed 52.56 MB and took more than 10 seconds to set up, whereas the Lite APK weights 1.5 MB and is installed immediately.
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