androiddevelopers: Optimize your app battery drain using Android Vitals wake lock metric

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Google Play Console is evolving its core app vitals metrics to include battery drain signals! Excessive wake lock usage will be joining user-perceived crash and ANR rate as key signs of your app’s technical health.



In this video we will cover the following topics:

What are the new core Android Vitals metrics?

What is a wake lock, when are they used, and what are best practices around wake lock usage?

How to debug and fix excessive wake lock usages using tools such as Android Studio Background Task Inspector, WorkManager APIs, Perfetto and ProfilingManager.



Resources:

What’s new in Watch Faces → https://goo.gle/watch-faces-2025

Android vitals → https://goo.gle/app-vitals

Use wake locks → https://goo.gle/wakelock-overview

Identify wake locks created by other APIs → https://goo.gle/identify-wakelocks

Debug using Background Task Inspector → goo.gle/bg-task-inspector

Optimize battery use for task scheduling APIs → goo.gle/optimize-background-tasks

Perfetto → https://goo.gle/4pDbaeb

How to use Profiling Manager → https://goo.gle/profiling-manager



Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

3:08 - Wake locks quiz section

5:18 - Wake locks best practices

17:57 Debugging Excessive Wake locks



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