[Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 released

Alberto Romeu Carrasco aromeu at prodevelop.es
Thu Sep 30 14:34:28 CEST 2010 

Hi Henry,

We finally have tested that issue in several Android phones. The test consists on start gvSIG Mini on a device with 34% of overall battery life, press the HOME button (after a few seconds the device goes sleep) and after half an hour take a look at the battery use.

With an Android 1.6, when the application is on the background, the percent of battery used does not increase; the battery life does not decrease, so everything seems OK.

With an Android 2.2, when the application is paused (or closed), the percent of battery used by gvSIG Mini increases progressively as you said (from 2% to 15%), although it doesn't seem that the battery life decreases too much, at least not significantly... the overall battery percent stands still on 34%... have you noticed a significant battery drainage, how much in percent/time?

In both cases the Battery use details of gvSIG Mini (CPU total, foreground, GPS, etc.) don't increase, so it seems that the application is not doing any background operation that consumes battery. 

Apart from all this, maybe we have a bug :) We will try to find out where is the problem exactly to fix it and release an update as soon as possible.

After all, thanks for your feedback. We put much of our efforts on making performance tests on Android 1.5 and Android 1.6 devices as they are less powerful, so your testing on Android 2.2 has been very helpful to us. For this special bug I will try to test on an Android 2.2.

Regards,  

Alberto Romeu
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es
> [mailto:gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es] En nombre de Henry
> Bush
> Enviado el: jueves, 30 de septiembre de 2010 10:31
> Para: Users and Developers mailing list
> Asunto: Re: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 released
> 
> By the way, if it's any help in tracking down the bug, I just noticed
> something I hadn't spotted before: it doesn't seem to make any
> difference if the app is exited correctly (by using the back button)
> or by pressing the home button, it still draws from the battery in
> both situations.
> Let me know if you want me to try any test builds or anything.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Henry
> 
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:26, Henry Bush <osgeo at spookypeanut.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hi Alberto,
> >
> > The battery life menu shows usage since last unplugged. So to do the
> > test I plugged the phone in, opened gvsig, paused it (went back to the
> > home screen), and then unplugged the phone. I then left it for ten
> > minutes, and went back to the battery menu and refreshed it, and gvsig
> > was at the top.
> > I'll double check today, just to make sure. Of course, I'm trusting
> > the battery life menu, but I have no idea how it works: I guess it's
> > feasible that gvsig has somehow "tricked" its way on there, but
> > doesn't actually use much battery. Having said that, I noticed that my
> > battery was draining more quickly after running gvsig in the first
> > place, hence the reason that I first looked at the battery menu.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Henry
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:18, Alberto Romeu Carrasco
> > <aromeu at prodevelop.es> wrote:
> >> Hi Henry,
> >>
> >> Are you sure gvSIG Mini is still consuming battery while is in the
> background? I guess the battery life menu on Android shows the battery
> life usage of applications since the OS start up, not the current usage of
> the battery...
> >>
> >> When gvSIG Mini Map activity is paused (is in the background) GPS and
> orientation sensor are stopped. For example, if you are on the Map
> activity and press the home button you'll see that the GPS icon on the
> notification bar disappears. So when in background it would not consume
> any battery... This happens since version 1.0.0 of gvSIG Mini, earlier
> versions did not disable GPS and background operations.
> >>
> >> Apart from this, for sure there's room to improve the battery life
> consumption of gvSIG Mini while running :)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Alberto Romeu
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Prodevelop SL, Valencia (España)
> >> Tlf.: 96.351.06.12 -- Fax: 96.351.09.68
> >> http://www.prodevelop.es
> >> ---
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Mensaje original-----
> >>> De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es
> >>> [mailto:gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es] En nombre de
> Henry
> >>> Bush
> >>> Enviado el: lunes, 13 de septiembre de 2010 16:29
> >>> Para: Users and Developers mailing list
> >>> Asunto: Re: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 released
> >>>
> >>> I see. By "exit button", you mean the back button, right? Good to
> >>> know, and it seems to work, but IMHO it's not very intuitive. I've
> >>> been using Android for quite some time, and no other app that I've
> >>> come across works like this: if I've finished with an app, I'm used to
> >>> pressing home to go somewhere else. Is it doing anything in particular
> >>> in the background when I press home? Or just waiting for me to go back
> >>> to it?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Henry
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 15:14, Javier Carrasco
> <jcarrasco at prodevelop.es>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > This is the correct place.
> >>> >
> >>> > Please use the exit button of your phone to terminate gvSIG Mini
> >>> > completely. If you use the HOME button gvSIG mini stays running on
> >>> > background. If you use a task killer you will close just the
> >>> > GUI and not the background processes.
> >>> >
> >>> > Regards
> >>> > Javi
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > -----Mensaje original-----
> >>> > De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es en nombre de Henry
> Bush
> >>> > Enviado el: lun 13/09/2010 14:18
> >>> > Para: Users and Developers mailing list
> >>> > Asunto: Re: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 released
> >>> >
> >>> > It looks fabulous, and works brilliantly, but...
> >>> > It seems to suck up battery even when it's not running. Having run
> it
> >>> > once, I left it, and now the battery life menu thing says that it's
> >>> > still draining my battery, even *after* force closing it. Where is
> the
> >>> > correct place to submit bug reports? In case it's here, I'm using a
> >>> > Nexus One on Android 2.2, shout if you need any more info.
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers,
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Henry
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:16,  <comunicacion_gvsig at gva.es> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> gvSIG Mini development team is proud to announce the release of the
> >>> >> stable version gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> This version offers, among other features, the ability of a direct
> >>> >> download of maps from the phone to the storage card, for a further
> map
> >>> >> displaying in offline mode, with no data connection.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> gvSIG Mini is a free viewer of free access maps based on tiles
> >>> >> (OpenStreetMap, YahooMaps, Microsoft Bing, ...), with an off-line
> >>> >> mode, a WMS & WMS-C client, address and POI search, routes and many
> >>> >> more things.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> gvSIG Mini is an open source project (GNU/GPL) aimed at Java and
> >>> >> Android mobile phones. Released version is 1.0.0 for Android.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Main latest features of 1.0.0 version are the following ones:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * Map download directly from the mobile phone, for off-line
> usage.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * Off-line mode for viewing maps with no data connection.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * Multitouch support.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * New map rendering system, much more agile.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * Standard Android search button support.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * New layers available by default.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * UK Ordnance Survey official maps (rendered by OS).
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * Settings menu with many options.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * New cache options.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>       * Android 2.2 support (now from 1.5 to 2.2).
> >>> >>
> >>> >> More than 20 bugs have also been fixed.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Also available at Android Market.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> gvSIG Mini has been developed by Prodevelop.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> More information at:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>      * gvSIG Mini website: http://www.gvsigmini.org
> >>> >>
> >>> >>      * Press release:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> http://www.prodevelop.es/en/noticia/10/09/02/gvsig-mini-android-
> 100-
> >>> released
> >>> >>
> >>> >>      * Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mroyn88dgM and
> >>> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEx-0BC9LU
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
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