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page.title=Reducing Network Battery Drain
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page.tags=battery
page.metaDescription=Learn how to optimize your app to reduce battery drain and use network resources efficiently.

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<p>
  Requests that your app makes to the network are a major cause of battery drain because they turn
  on the power-hungry mobile or Wi-Fi radios. Beyond the power needed to send and receive packets,
  these radios expend extra power just turning on and keeping awake. Something as simple as a
  network request every 15 seconds can keep the mobile radio on continuously and quickly use up
  battery power.
</p>

<p>
  This lesson shows you how to tag your app's source code to categorize, visualize and color
  your network requests according to how they are initiated. From there, each category
  identifies areas of your app that you can make more battery-efficient.
</p>


<h2>Performance Actions</h2>

<dl>
  <dt>
    <strong><a href="gather-data.html">
        Collecting Network Traffic Data</a></strong>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    Learn how to instrument your app's code and gather data on its use of network resources.
  </dd>

  <dt>
    <strong><a href="analyze-data.html">
        Analyzing Network Traffic Data</a></strong>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    Learn how to analyze your app's use of network resources in response to user actions
    and optimize it to reduce power consumption.
  </dd>

  <dt>
    <strong><a href="action-user-traffic.html">
        Optimizing User-Initiated Network Use</a></strong>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    Learn how to optimize your app's use of network resources in response to user actions
    to reduce power consumption.
  </dd>

  <dt>
    <strong><a href="action-app-traffic.html">
        Optimizing App-Initiated Network Use</a></strong>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    Learn how to optimize your app's requests for network resources to reduce
    power consumption.
  </dd>

  <dt>
    <strong><a href="action-server-traffic.html">
        Optimizing Server-Initiated Network Use</a></strong>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    Learn how to optimize your app's requests for network resources and to reduce
    power consumption.
  </dd>

  <dt>
    <strong><a href="action-any-traffic.html">
        Optimizing General Network Use</a></strong>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    Learn how to optimize your app's requests for network resources and to reduce
    power consumption.
  </dd>

</dl>