Energy, WiFi and RAM use by Android messaging apps

This really interesting, would love to see how Signal stacks up.

Not surprised in the least about Element unfortunately, it really screamed for a rewrite (one of the biggest problems was the horrible choice of database, which unfortunately was very hard to replace)

Hi! I would like to show you my small analysis of Android messaging apps: power draw, bandwidth and RAM use.

It's a good thing that I have disabled Gmail app on my device and use k9 for all my email accounts. Seems like I should stop using WhatsApp too.

According to Battery Historian [1], WhatsApp was the single biggest cause of battery drain on my phone.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;performance&#x2F;power&#x2F;battery-historian" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;performance&#x2F;power&#x2F;batter...</a>

Tangent, I find Instagram to be one of the most egregious battery drainers amongst mainstream apps. A former IG employee made a claim here on HN that the inefficiency was due to ghastly experiments being run on clients devices. Shame, I cannot seem to find that comment.

Seems like measuring the median would be misleading

Can someone summarize the findings? I genuinely can’t read it well. The tables are too wide for the viewport. If I make the browser wider the page becomes two columns and the viewports are still too small to show the full table.<p>The sections of text also appear to be longer than the boxes they are in, causing scrolling inside which I only discovered after a few minutes and making it hard to read.<p>Honestly it’s quite frustrating. Which is too bad I really liked that this testing was done.