Mobile Apps: Battery Life Native vs LiveCode

[Colin Holgate]

You can just listen for location changes, or check manually now and then. There's no reason to think that LiveCode would drain the battery more than other apps that would do the same thing.

One thing to know though, your app quits when you press the home button, at least on iOS. So, you would be using no battery power during those times, but it also means that LiveCode isn't the best choice for anything that requires it to work as background activity.