News & Reviews:   VulKan

ARM have released a demo video showcasing how Vulkan, the next-generation graphics engine will save power by efficiently spreading computation across multiple processors. OpenGL clearly processes the video mainly on a single core, requiring more power in the end but you can see that for yourself in the video below. This is especially good news for devices that will be running Android 7.0 Nougat which requires Vulkan to run.

Samsung recently demoed their brand new TouchWiz launcher at the Samsung Developer Conference, and it will be using the new Vulkan API. This has resulted in a 6% decrease in battery consumption, on basic tasks such as opening the app drawer or scrolling pages. Using this new launcher on a device with a battery of 3600mAh (like the Galaxy S7 Edge) will show an improvement of around 40 minutes extra for battery life.