Abstract: The application of energy consumption analysis in Android application has always been an important part of mobile application testing. Based on the analysis of the hardware characteristics of mobile application and the underlying mobile terminal, a nonlinear energy consumption model based on hardware running time is proposed. Compared with the hardware energy consumption of complex use but high precision, the model lists the energy consumption of the single hardware in different states as the basic energy consumption unit, and then uses this time to describe the power consumption of the terminal in combination with the time variable, which can easily obtain and measure the running time, so as to quickly estimate the energy consumed by the application runtime. The results show that the average error of the energy consumption estimated by this model is less than 6% compared with the energy consumption measured by hardware measurement, which can provide an effective evaluation for the user to quickly detect the power consumed by the application.

Key words: mobile device, application of energy consumption, energy model, electricity, hardware measurement