To ensure user satisfaction and success of mobile applications, it is important to provide
highly performant applications. This is particularly important for resource-constrained …

Software engineers make use of design patterns for reasons that range from performance to
code comprehensibility. Several design patterns capturing the body of knowledge of best …

Context During the last years, developers of mobile applications have the possibility to use
new paradigms and tools for develo** mobile applications. For instance, since 2017 …

Android applications are becoming increasingly powerful in recent years. While their
functionality is still of paramount importance to users, the energy efficiency of these …

Mobile devices have become indispensable in our daily life and reducing the energy
consumed by them has become essential. However, develo** energy-efficient mobile …

Improving the energy efficiency of mobile applications is a timely goal, as it can contribute to
increase a device's usage time, which most often is powered by batteries. Recent studies …

Energy efficiency is a crucial quality requirement for mobile applications. However,
improving energy efficiency is far from trivial as developers lack the knowledge and tools to …

High energy consumption is a challenging issue that an ever increasing number of mobile
applications face today. However, energy consumption is being tested in an ad hoc way …

Along the last decade, several studies considered green software design as a key
development concern to improve the energy efficiency of software. Yet, few techniques …

This paper extends previous work on the concept of a new software energy metric: Energy
Debt. This metric is a reflection on the implied cost, in terms of energy consumption over …