Battery feedback uses

I'm sorry that I wasn't able to provide this feedback earlier. I just joined RIM and DAP. This week I spent time talking with two implementation teams here. What follows seems to cover the needs of application developers and users.

Battery use cases
* Showing a battery indicator, especially in full-screen
* Determining if a task can be completed before the device dies or kills the application
* Trying to be polite: is the user in economy mode / has the user asked to aggressively manage power?

Reality Checks
* On a desktop computer running Windows, it's likely that the computer will reboot within three weeks
* Some users have a tendency to turn off their computers every evening
* Some mobile devices can use more power than they can take in, e.g. the Nokia n900

Notes
* A device or widget host should be able to discover, learn or be taught the items in the Reality Checks section

Goals
* Tell an app how long it likely has before he app will be terminated
* Allow application to ask if it could use certain resources for a certain amount of time without being quit
* Getting an update on such estimates / profiles

Ideally, an application should be able to say:
1. I'd like to create a long task
2. I'm going to need these services: (list - e.g. Location, Graphics)
3. I expect it to finish by time: x
4. Platform, will this be ok?
5. Answer: Currently, that will be fine, if things change, we'll let you know
6. <Time passes>
7. Application updates query indicating a new completion estimate (for better or worse)
8. Platform updates application if it discovers that it will have to kill the application before its completion window expires

I'll try to take some time to see how this maps to the current proposal.
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Received on Sunday, 26 June 2011 12:37:43 UTC