Abstract
Current smartphones power-saving strategies can be improved towards saving more power and/or gain more user satisfaction only if they start incubating "preventive" and/or user customized power-saving plans in addition to traditional "detective" strategies. This paper develops a mixed preventive/detective power-saving strategy which will help in saving the battery power without heavily relying on the power of the same battery for detecting abusers (only "detective" strategies). The paper develops a six stars rating schema in order to rate applications in Google Play android apps store in terms of power consumption (similar to appliances' power consumption ratings). This will help the users to have an idea of the power consumption habits of each application before installing the application (preventive). Google Play "Permissions" are traditionally used for security, privacy, and monetary control. This paper presents a first-time usage of "Google Play Permissions" in the area of power consumption. With the help of power measurement tool (Power Tutor), we measure the power consumption of the components of the smartphone that are linked to specific permissions such as processor, screen, camera, audio, vibration, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular, flashlight, microphone, GPS, etc. These measurements are used to compute the "Stars Rating" of the Google Play Apps.