Android Question battery remaining

[Darren Llewellyn]

Does anyone know if it's possible to access the amout of battery time remaining? I have seen it in the settings and I wondered if it was accessable.

Thanks in advance

 

[Erel]

You can use PhoneEvents to listen to the BatteryChanged event. This information should be inside the intent. Check it with Intent.ExtrasToString.

 

[Darren Llewellyn]

I can't seem to see an entry for that there present, Scale, Voltage Temperature, State, Health, invalid charger, Plugged and Icon but nothing else is there some other method to retrieve this information?

 

[Erel]

There should be a "level" value.

 

[Darren Llewellyn]

Yes but doesn't that judt give the percentage of battery left not how long in time?

 

[Erel]

I see. This is however the data available in this intent.

 

[DKCERT]

Semi code:

Sub Process_Globals
  Dim PE As PhoneEvents

  Dim BatteryLevel As Int
  Dim BatteryCharging As Boolean
End Sub

Sub PE_BatteryChanged(Level As Int, Scale As Int, Plugged As Boolean, Intent As Intent)
    BatteryLevel = Level
    BatteryCharging = Plugged
    'Log("Level: " & Level & "%, Scale: " & Scale & ", Plugged: " & Plugged)
End Sub

 

[Darren Llewellyn]

Thats how I am getting the value of level as a % of battery but I want to get the amount of time you have left.

 

[nfordbscndrd]

Thats how I am getting the value of level as a % of battery but I want to get the amount of time you have left.

I don't see how that would be possible since the amount of time left depends on how the device is being used. Assuming that power is being used at a constant rate (which is probably NOT a valid assumption), you could check how long it takes the power level to drop "x" number of % and extrapolate time remaining from that.