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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

The spec looks very promising.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> you might be interested in:
>
>   *
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1303-add-app-model-and-lifecycle-to-platform-api
>   * and the corresponding spec in:
>
> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1ij8RtPsR_eYMW3mys8Gu1Y2CVFZpjXdMpdIjIGZ1SCA/edit#
>
> In summary: We will implement a very strict lifecycle policy, too, and
> one that seamlessly adapts and extends to different form-factors.
>
> Thanks,
>
>   Thomas
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Zisu Andrei <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > What I find interesting in the iPad (I just have one because I need it
> for
> > work) and recently in Mac OS Mavericks is their power managent policy.
> >
> > Put simply, in iOS, except a few very special cases, you applications
> will
> > be stopped when they go into background. So the foreground app gets full
> > reign of both memory and CPU. This also has a very beneficial effect on
> > battery life - in Android, apps running in the background still eat
> cputime.
> >
> > What OS X Mavericks is doing is taking this idea further into a noteboook
> > environment [1] with their application nap and timer coalescing. You
> really
> > only get the most out of your battery.
> >
> > While this might not totally work in an environment like Ubuntu, would
> it be
> > possible to throttle the foreground application and slow down the
> background
> > ones?  What would this imply? Is it do-able in the current state of
> Ubuntu
> > Phone, or do we need extra things at kernel level?
> >
> > [1] http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/advanced-technologies.html
> >
> > Zisu Andrei
> >
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-- 
Sincerely,
    Josh