For Facebook it’s no secret that your application has serious problems on the Android in regards to the management of resources. But a group of users has discovered that the app affects quite to the life of the battery, and if you do delete it from your phone you could save up to 20% of the energy. Yes, it’s that drastic.
late last year one of the product managers of Facebook, Chris Cox, was recommended to some of its employees to switch from iPhone to Android so that they could understand in person what were the problems of the app on this operating system. And is that even on Android terminals more powerful and expensive the application is still causing problems and you feel, in general, slow.
These problems still persist, so that some users on Reddit have been experimenting with ways to understand the real difference between having or not having installed the official mobile app of Facebook, and it is really drastic. They have been joined by the researchers of the Tech World Zone who conducted their own tests, and found that in general if you don’t install the app of Facebook on Android, you get up to 20% more autonomy.
Among his proofs used a Nexus 6P Huawei, the best terminals currently in the Android ecosystem (even if you already have a year on the market). The difference is noticed when you change the app’s official Facebook to a call Metal, that basically offers an alternative to the mobile website of the social network.
The result was a 20% greater range per day in the terminal for more than a week. When returning to the app from Facebook official, the excessive consumption of battery returned.
The most curious thing of all is that in the section of statistics of the battery usage in Android the app of Facebook does not seem to be consuming so much, but the researchers say that this is because the app uses several processes of the Android in the background that are not reflected in this table.
From the Tech World Zone contacted Facebook and informed them of his discovery, to which the social network responded that they were aware that there were problems in its app for Android related to the battery consumption and that they are working to fix them.
There are many factors that can affect the life of the battery of a mobile phone in their day-to-day, including the use of the terminal, but if an app consumes more than it should in the background is a problem that the developer has to solve. Let’s hope that Facebook do so soon. [via Tech World Zone]
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