Sunday, September 09, 2012

Android Emulator battery charge indicator.

Dear Google,
I think there's a bug in the Android SDK Emulator battery charge indicator. When running the emulator on my Macbook Air, the emulator charge indicator shows charging all the time, even when the computer is running on battery power.

This presents several problems. Firstly, if the emulator takes even more power to charge itself when the computer is already running on battery power, the extra drain will reduce battery life even more. I suggest making the emulator run on its own virtual batteries when the main computer is running on its own batteries. Secondly, the process of virtualizing electrons for use in the virtual batteries obviously takes a lot of energy so this should only be done when power is applied. Lastly, and this is the really big problem. If I don't need an emulator any more and I delete it. the virtualized electrons will be erased along with the rest of the data. This will cause a net deficit in the fabric of the universe and my Macbook Air will implode. So far the unibody casting is holding up but it seems to be groaning a little and the R,T,Y,D,F,G,H,C,V and B keys seem to be bending in a bit. Please advise quickly...

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