The spec looks very promising.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Thomas Voß
<thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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
<mailto: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
>
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Sincerely,
Josh
