8.4. Power Consumption Accounting

A more accurate accounting and reporting of the power consumption provides the app developer both the incentives and the tools to optimize the power usage pattern of the application. Therefore, device implementations:

• MUST be able to track hardware component power usage and attribute that power usage to specific applications. Specifically, implementations:
  • MUST provide a per-component power profile that defines the current consumption value for each hardware component and the approximate battery drain caused by the components over time as documented in the Android Open Source Project site.
  • MUST report all power consumption values in milliampere hours (mAh).
  • SHOULD be attributed to the hardware component itself if unable to attribute hardware component power usage to an application.
  • MUST report CPU power consumption per each process's UID. The Android Open Source Project meets the requirement through the uid_cputime kernel module implementation.
• MUST make this power usage available via the adb shell dumpsys batterystats shell command to the app developer.
• MUST honor the android.intent.action.POWER_USAGE_SUMMARY intent and display a settings menu that shows this power usage.