PowDroid: Energy Profiling of Android Applications

Abstract

While the energy efficiency of mobile apps is receiving considerable attention in recent years, Android developers have little tools to assess the energy footprint of their applications. In this paper, we introduce PowDroid, our tool to estimate the energy consumption of Android application. It uses system-wide metrics and does not require access to applications’ source code. We run PowDroid on a use-case scenario comparing the energy footprint of applications in different categories.