Android update: This simple trick could radically improve your phone's battery life
Android is Google's smartphone operating system that is hugely-popular.
In fact, it is the software running on most phones around the globe that are not produced by Apple Inc.
Google unveiled its newest version of Android, 9 Pie, back in August that introduced a number of handy new features.
One of the most notable additions was "Adaptive Battery" that harnesses the power of machine learning to intelligently direct power away from apps that are not utilised and more towards those that are.
Google recently held its Android Dev Summit in Mountain View where it discussed other tricks that can be employed to enhance smartphone life per charge.
At the Android Summit the Mountain View company showed a number of slides to developers about how screen brightness and colour affects battery consumption.
It was discussed how black colours on maximum brightness draw significantly less power than brighter colours, such as white, on full brightness.
During its presentation, Google admitted it had made somewhat of a mistake by adopting its Material Design that is renowned for its bright white colours.
After showing a slide labelling the colour white as being the most draining for a smartphone battery, Google said "Guess which colour we've been pushing you to use" as part of an effort to humour itself.
Google then discussed the benefits of dark modes that have become increasingly prominent in its suite of applications, as noted by SlashGear.
The tech giant showed an image of a YouTube video paused on a device running YouTube in its default view and juxtaposed it with the same scenario, but with Youtube running in dark mode.
It was then shown the YouTube application running a white backdrop used 239mA of power when on 100 percent brightness.
And dark mode also used less power when the smartphone example was set to 50 percent brightness.
It used only 80mA of juice while the normal YouTube view came in at 93mA.
The disparity between the two options on full brightness suggests using dark mode for applications could bring both long and short-term battery benefits.
In addition to the YouTube application, Google's Messages app also has a dark mode.
And Android's quick settings toggle, along with its app drawer, also have such a theme that can be enabled.
Android update: This simple trick could radically improve your phone's battery life
Android is Google's smartphone operating system that is hugely-popular.
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