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 Watch more Android Conference Talks → https://goo.gle/ConferenceTalks Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs #AndroidDevelopers

Published 2025-09-24 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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