Energy, WiFi and RAM use by Android messaging apps(decentim.grafana.net) |
Energy, WiFi and RAM use by Android messaging apps(decentim.grafana.net) |
Element X only supports FCM cloud push notifications right now I think
See also https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1025
So the data can be seriously meaningless if you don't control for the amount of messages received and their interval (spread out messages hit the power draw more than batched - phones usually race to idle).
1. https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/power/batter...
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.
Honestly it’s quite frustrating. Which is too bad I really liked that this testing was done.
> Conversations (XMPP) seems best for battery life, traffic and RAM.
> Facebook Messenger and Element (Matrix) are the worst from the studied apps, draining up to 300x more power than Conversations when battery optimization is disabled. Keep battery optimization enabled for them, I guess. Need more data to see better.
> Element X (experimental Matrix app) is coming up with a more than 100x reduction in energy consumption (comparing to Element), drawing just 2x more power than Conversations.
Have been running it alongside Element X so far, but the energy consumption does not justify the few additional features
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.
I saw the domain, and was not surprised to see this comment here. Frankly, this is what a ton of "modern" software is like. Flashy, bloated, and overmarketed with buzzwords, but just barely accessible.
A plain HTML page with regular tables and images would be far superior.
It's... wierd.
Conclusions Conversations (XMPP) seems best for battery life, traffic and RAM.
Facebook Messenger and Element (Matrix) are the worst from the studied apps, draining up to 300x more power than Conversations when battery optimization is disabled. Keep battery optimization enabled for them, I guess. Need more data to see better.
Element X (experimental Matrix app) is coming up with a more than 100x reduction in energy consumption (comparing to Element), drawing just 2x more power than Conversations.
A few more proprietary messengers have been measured and they fall in between the space between the above mentioned extremes. Little can be said about them besides that most of them continuously draw substantial amount of power and bandwidth even when not interacted with.
If there was a conclusion beyond that, I’m sorry but I missed it.
This site reminds me of the early 90s when people would make frame layouts with dozens of individual little tiny frames and put different content in every single one.
There’s a reason no one does that anymore.
The big drawback are the X versions are still very far from feature complete.