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• 1. Framework
• -- Overview
• -- Tools
• 2. Power Models
• 3. Color Palettes
• 4. Apps
• 5. GEMMA Solutions
• 6. Authors

Optimizing Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps: A Multi-objective Approach - FSE 2015 Online Appendix

This web page is a companion to our FSE 2015 paper entitled "Optimizing Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps: A Multi-objective Approach".

1. Framework: GEMMA

> Overview of GEMMA

*Image available also as a PDF

> Tools

Tools used in particular for extracting color composition from GUIs:

• Android Debug Bridge (adb)
• HierarchyViewer
• UIAutomator

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2. Power Models

Current (mA) consumption models for primary colors of the Galaxy S4 SUPER AMOLED screen in standard RGB color space.

Current (mA) consumption models for primary colors of the Galaxy S4 SUPER AMOLED screen in linear RGB color space.

3. Color Palettes

Examples of palettes used by the Genetic Algorithm.

Equidistant Harmony Palette

Equidistant Harmony Palette with Random Saturation and Brightness

Monochromatic Palette

4. Apps

number	App	Category
1	360 Security	Tools
2	BoardGameGeek	Books & Reference
3	Bollate	Travel & Local
4	WorkTime	Productivity
5	Clean master	Tools
6	Daily Money	Finance
7	Diabetes plus	Medical
8	FitBrains	Education
9	Groupon	Shopping
10	Keep	Productivity
11	Learn music notes	Puzzle
12	Lege Appen	Medical
13	Mathtools	Education
14	Permissions Friendly Apps	Education
15	Petrella	Travel & Local
16	PlayMusic	Music & Audio
17	Simple deadlines	Productivity
18	Sing Happy Birthday Songs	Music & Audio
19	Tasks	Productivity
20	Tasks: Astrid To-Do List Clone	Productivity
21	The Weather Channel	Weather
22	TOE - tic tac toe	Puzzle
23	Walmart	Shopping
24	Italian App 1	----
25	Italian App 2	----

5. GEMMA Solutions for the analyzed apps

In the following we present solutions achived by GEMMA.

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>Italian App 1

Screenshots that are not publicly available

>Italian App 2

Screenshots that are not publicly available

6. Authors

• Mario Linares-Vásquez - The College of William and Mary, VA, USA.
  E-mail: mlinarev at cs dot wm dot edu
• Gabriele Bavota - Free University of Bozen, Bolzano, Italy.
  Email: gabriele.bavota at unibz dot it
• Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas - The College of William and Mary, VA, USA.
  Email: cebernal at cs dot wm dot edu
• Rocco Oliveto - University of Molise, Pesche (IS), Italy.
  E-mail: rocco.oliveto at unimol dot it
• Massimiliano Di Penta - University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.
  Email: dipenta at unisannio dotit
• Denys Poshyvanyk - The College of William and Mary.
  E-mail: denys at cs dot wm dot edu