Don’t let your Android Apps become Power-Hogs – we show you how

By holding wakelocks and hardware resources, application developers can affect the power consumption. Poor implementation will reduce the standby time of mobile handsets.

Users are sensitive to the standby time of their phone and usually think of battery and hardware problems, rather than considering that one or more applications could be the cause of poor performance.

Sony Ericsson's development team has gathered some basic application coding guidelines that will improve your applications power management.