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Datastore sync effects on temperature/energy
During testing this morning on an iPhone, I notice the device's temperature was keeping unusually cool. The iPhone was in silent mode. When I performed this kind of testing in the past, network was a...
Steve M.
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWere you doing something active with datastores?
In terms of network usage: as long as you have an observer, the Datastore SDK will keep a single long-polling HTTP connection open with the server and wait for changes. Every few minutes this connection is closed and reestablished. If you're actively making changes and syncing them, HTTP connections are being made to the server (perhaps as often as once per delta), and those deltas are transmitted.
In terms of battery life, using the network can certainly be a contributor, but it's also possible there's local processing that's burning CPU cycles. Again, if no active use is happening, this should be really minimal, but if you're making a lot of changes and syncing them, there will be some CPU usage.
I'm not clear on what "silent mode" has to do with this... I wouldn't expect that to interact with the datastore use at all?
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