Meta: MgoAndroid App Battery Usage
January 29th, 2013 at 3:57 PM ^
It's one of the least battery intensive apps I have, barely noticeable on my Motorola Photon.
January 29th, 2013 at 4:08 PM ^
It has been taking up a lot of battery for me lately. I have a Galaxy S3 Verizon, and I've taken to killing the app after using it. I don't know what has changed though, since it never used to do it.
January 29th, 2013 at 4:09 PM ^
So you're saying that we all are sucking the life out of you (r phone)? Wait till you (r phone) gets married and has kids!
January 29th, 2013 at 4:11 PM ^
I've always had problems with it eating battery. I'm on my 3rd different Android phone in the past couple years, and it's been a problem with each phone.
January 29th, 2013 at 4:30 PM ^
I just checked my phone. The app used ~3% of my battery.
January 29th, 2013 at 4:38 PM ^
January 29th, 2013 at 4:43 PM ^
I've never noticed any problems with it on my Galaxy Nexus. I don't often use my phone to check in here though.
It probably has more to do with your usage than anything else. And if you aren't in the habit already, I always get rid of apps from my multi-tasking menu once I'm done with them. That might help with your battery, since apps are still technically "active," even if not currently in view.
January 29th, 2013 at 4:47 PM ^
Hell, in the last year I've had Note 2, S3, Razr, Rezound, Nexus. Never had a problem with the app on any of the phones until the last month or so. The app hasn't been updated in 10 months. Not sure what it could be. I've cleared cache/data. I may end up uninstalling and using Chrome.
January 29th, 2013 at 4:48 PM ^
It does go crazy every once in a while and take almost all of the CPU. I usually kill the app after using it. It seemed like the problems started after I upgraded to ICS. The app has kinda been abandoned (or at least there has been no update in ages), and I think something with the new flavors of Android doesn't play well with the app. I use Watchdog Lite to warn me when an app goes above a certain threshold of CPU usage, and the Mgoblog app frequently gets flagged for going nuts. I just make sure I kill it every time I am done using it instead of just "back"ing out of it.
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January 29th, 2013 at 8:32 PM ^
It's been a while. I apologize for the lack of updates, but senior design and the Engineering school in general caught up to me and I had to put MGoBlog on the backburner.
Luckily, I'm graduated now and have a lot more free time work on the app. I rewrote the whole thing to get rid of the suck, and it's going pretty well so far. If you want to see an early beta build you can download it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1fs7tmjfquv5ev/MGoBlog-1.0-SNAPSHOT.apk
January 29th, 2013 at 9:26 PM ^
January 29th, 2013 at 9:33 PM ^
I'm a .NET and web developer mostly, but I've been wanting more and more to try Android development. If you're willing to share your source code, I'd love to dig into it a bit.
I've got a couple ideas for the MGoApp that I've implemented in other languages (specifically converting plain text and line breaks to HTML formatting), and I think the same principles could probably be applied to the app relatively simply.
January 30th, 2013 at 10:36 AM ^
If you have any ideas about converting plain text to links and converting Youtube iframes and embeds to use the Android Youtube API, I'm all ears! That stuff has been bugging me for a while now.
Source code is public and ready to be forked. https://github.com/SeanPONeil/MGoBlog
January 29th, 2013 at 10:40 PM ^
January 30th, 2013 at 8:33 AM ^
Thanks for your work dude! Any plans to come up with a tablet-optimized app (for a 10" screen)? I just got the Nexus 10 and would love to see the MGoBlog app formatted for the bigger screen size.
Just a pipe dream though, I understand you've probably got higher priorities.
January 30th, 2013 at 10:34 AM ^
That's actually what I'm working on right now, and it looks a lot better than the mess it is right now on tablets. I'll keep you posted.
January 30th, 2013 at 11:15 AM ^
Awesome. Definitely let us know once its done. And if you're looking for any input or feedback on it, I'd be happy to help.
January 30th, 2013 at 10:47 AM ^
The iPad version is pretty awesome. A similar setup for Android-based tablets would be the bomb.
January 30th, 2013 at 10:55 AM ^
It's in the works! I have a dual pane version working at home and I'm digging it
January 29th, 2013 at 9:45 PM ^
I've used the app on two different phones pretty much since it came out, and I've never experienced any significant battery drain.
I suggest getting BetterBatteryStats:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbattery…
It gives you more detailed information on the specific processes that are causing wakelocks and draining your battery (like processes that are lumped together as "Android System" or Android OS" in the system battery meter). It could be that you have a stray process running that keeps loading up the MGoApp for some reason. It's $3.00, but it's money well spent.
January 30th, 2013 at 8:01 PM ^
MGoBlogAndroidDevelper! Being able to use the app on my phone instead of through the network filter (and my boss's prying eyes) are fantastic when I want to relax at work. Thanks for your efforts & i look forward to the next update!
September 1st, 2020 at 12:08 PM ^
When it comes to iOS, I really see that many apps for this OS are much better than the similar apps for Android. Guess that iOS deveopment companies are just much more professional and they bother more about the quality of a product. I am a developer myself and I know how dramatically a product quality can be changed if the development team works properly. We had to use Agile Transformation Services to achieve that but the result is outstanding.