Testing Battery Usage

Question

I want to test how my application effects the battery of a phone/tablet.

Are there any testing tools which will allow me to do so?

For example, I want to test which modules of my application are consuming the most amount of battery, etc.

Answer 1

There is a new tool which comes with Android 5.0.

You can run

adb shell dumpsys batterystats > dump.txt 

To get the full battery dump of you device. You also can add some options like --unplugged (only output data since last unplugged) or --charged (only output data since last charged). You can also add a packagename to get informations for this package/app only:

adb shell dumpsys batterystats --unplugged your.package.name > dump.txt 

The part > dump.txt put everything into a file (maybe just works on Windows, not sure. But you can just leave it away, the dump will be printed right in the console where you can copy it and put it in a file).

This works just if you have a device with Android 5.x. If you have a device with a lower level you can try to use

adb shell bugreport > bugreport.txt 

But this file will be very very big. (~8mb+)

After creating this file you can use the Historian Tool of Google

To use it you have to install Python 2.7.9 and run following command

python /path/to/historian.py dump.txt > battery.html 

This will create a battery.html file where you can see the data in a more usefull formatting.

Last thing: If you want to reset the stats of the battery dump just call

adb shell dumpsys batterystats --reset 

(just works with Android 5.x)