Let’s Be Actors of Sustainable (Mobile) Development
summary
The talk examines mobile development's climate impact and gives concrete measurement-based actions: quantify network and CPU costs of app updates and releases, track how raising minSdk excludes devices, and measure APK size and release frequency. It cites France Télévisions data (1.15M installs, ~177 TB transferred in one year) and recommends reducing release frequency and APK weight, using tools like GreenSpector to measure impacts.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 1:28On one hand, the environmental impact of digital technology
- 4:02Environmental indicators
- 4:20Digital broken down into 3 proud categories
- 4:53User equipment constitutes the main source of environmental impacts
- 5:05The levers we must focus on as mobile app developers
- 5:35What makes us buy a new smartphone
- 6:44The day I became aware
- 8:13France Télévisions committed to a public service mission
- 12:36Can we really not prevent this?
- 15:19A single process to implement
- 15:42How to measure the environmental impact of our apps?
- 17:00A very precise study whose assumptions do not apply to our context
- 19:46Measuring is essential, applying a carbon model is another step
- 20:24The example of update weight
- 21:43Paths to evolve our apps
- 22:39Let’s be actors of sustainable (mobile) development
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