EcoAndroid: An Android Studio Plugin for Developing Energy-Efficient Java Mobile Applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2021

Authors

Ribeiro, A (Author) Other; Ferreira, JF (Author) Other; Mendes, A (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security, QRS 2021, Hainan, China, December 6-10, 2021

Pages: 62-69

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Authenticus ID: P-00W-8RW

DOI: 10.1109/qrs54544.2021.00017

Abstract (EN): Mobile devices have become indispensable in our daily life and reducing the energy consumed by them has become essential. However, developing energy-efficient mobile applications is not a trivial task. To address this problem, we present EcoAndroid, an Android Studio plugin that automatically applies energy patterns to Java source code. It currently supports ten different cases of energy-related refactorings, divided over five energy patterns taken from the literature. We used EcoAndroid to analyze 100 Java mobile applications (approximate to 1.5M LOC) and we found that 35 of the projects had a total of 95 energy code smells. EcoAndroid was able to automatically refactor all the code smells identified.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8