An Approach to Analyze Power Consumption on Apps for Android OS Based on Software Reverse Engineering

摘要

Managing power consumption efficiently in mobile devices is a challenge for software engineers who design and develop operating systems or applications for this market. Studies have been conducted to offer tools and techniques aimed to accomplish this goal by implementing simulation, apps, and sophisticated power meters. However, they do not provide a practical methodology for those students, practitioners or newcomers who want to analyze source code of apps and reduce power consumption. In this paper, a new approach is presented applying Software Reverse Engineering (SRE) to optimize the source code of mobile applications in Android OS and increase the battery duration. The results demonstrate that the proposed lightweight methodology reduces power consumption on a mobile application up to 20%.