How to obtain Battery Stats in Android at runtime?

android, power-management

Solution

   BroadcastReceiver batteryLevelReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            context.unregisterReceiver(this);
            int rawlevel = intent.getIntExtra("level", -1);
            int scale = intent.getIntExtra("scale", -1);
            int level = -1;
            if (rawlevel >= 0 && scale > 0) {
                level = (rawlevel * 100) / scale; /* This is your battery level */ 
            }
         }
    };
    IntentFilter batteryLevelFilter = new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED);
    registerReceiver(batteryLevelReceiver, batteryLevelFilter);
}

or check out this guy (who wrote the code I posted): http://mihaifonoage.blogspot.com/2010/02/getting-battery-level-in-android-using.html

Problem

I want to display Battery level stats in my app. How can we obtain such information like Battery Power, Battery Voltage, etc.?

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