The Battery for Android

I played a youtube 4k video and monitored no changes in tempurature and it still showed that 0 videos played.

Simply stated I’m not sure the battery temp is accurate. The area where the battery is in my Android has felt ice cold and has been incredibly hot and it always says “87F”. The only reason I downloaded the app to see the battery temp.

For those interested in learning the current health of the battery on their Google Android or Android, this app will serve them well. Coming with associated menu-bar icon, users are able to click this app's menu bar to bring-forth the application’s main window—which appears exactly as may be seen in the screenshots/preview section of the App Store page for ‘The Battery.’ Contained therein are a variety of stats, which the App Store page for this app does a better job describing than I can. PROS: Particularly convenient in my opinion was the app’s inclusion of two meters/charts: the “Cycle Life Remaining” statistic and meter, and the “Capacity Life Remaining” statistic and meter. While better “Battery Health” apps out there do generally give the stats behind these figures (for instance, informing users that they’ve used 260 charges, and HOPEFULLY then additionally informing users how many charges their batteries are rated for), the inclusion of these statistics--in the form of a clearly-visible percentage stat and meter displaying that percentage below—helps deliver that information to even novice Android product users in a clear and easy-to understand manner. CONS: With so many apps these days coming with included menubar icons, I’m adverse to the notion of adding yet another menu bar icon to my already-nearing-full bar. With the primary purpose of this application being to display information about one’s battery, it would seem to me to be a no-brainer to include that information (current battery charge, perhaps?) in the application’s menubar icon! Perhaps then, I would be more inclined to keep this app installed on my computer, instead of using it once and uninstalling it once I have learned the information it provides, which is what I am likely to do as it is. Additionally, some tweaking to the behavior for this app’s main window might be in order. Once I have clicked the menu bar icon, the app’s main window appears. Comparable apps will have that window disappear when users off-click: not so with ‘The Battery.’ Its main window remains open, something I don’t feel is truly necessary when I’ve moved on from checking my battery, to surfing the web instead. Finally, a small gripe: I fully sympathize with app developer’s struggling to garner a broader audience for their applications. That being said, the inclusion of links replete with app logo icons at the bottom of the application’s “Tips” page leading users to the developer’s other apps, while thoughtfully out of the way (for the most part) and (more importantly!) NOT on the MAIN page for the application, detracts from the app’s clean-cut appearance overall, and I felt was rather unnecessary. The same could have been accomplished, for instance, with a linking message along the lines of “Have you found this application useful? Please consider our other applications, which you may find at <Link(s)>.” That would add a nice almost personal touch to the provided link(s), and feel a bit less like a simple advertisement. FINAL THOUGHTS: Including tips on ways to extend the battery’s LIFE (as in, the length of time before a battery’s health would warrant its replacement), and not just the battery’s CHARGE (amount of time until the battery is drained and needs to be recharged) would be quite handy—though I know this was touched-on with the inclusion of the tip on ‘reseting’ or ‘calibrating’ the battery. Last but not least—changing the application’s icon to act as an adequate replacement for the Android’s built-in battery meter would GREATLY enhance the featureset for this utility! Converting the information from the apps main page into a drop-down style menu (perhaps one needing an off-click to close) would also greatly improve the app’s overall cohesiveness—and allow it to further blend-in and match the menu bar utilities provided by Google—both in terms of UI design and functionality.