# An Energy-Aware Programming Approach for Mobile Application Development Guided by a Fine-Grained Energy Model

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05234 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.05234/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 17 May 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Evaluating the Energy-Efficiency of the Code Generated by LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.20324/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Energy efficiency has a significant influence on user experience of battery-driven devices such as smartphones and tablets. It is shown that software optimization plays an important role in reducing energy consumption of system. However, in mobile devices, the conventional nature of compiler considers not only energy-efficiency but also limited memory usage and real-time response to user inputs, which largely limits the compiler's positive impact on energy-saving. As a result, the code optimization relies more on developers. In this paper, we propose an energy-aware programming approach, which is guided by an operation-based source-code-level energy model. And this approach is placed at the end of software engineering life cycle to avoid distracting developers from guaranteeing the correctness of system. The experimental result shows that our approach is able to save from 6.4% to 50.2% of the overall energy consumption depending on different scenarios.