Battery Status API

Allows access to see the battery level of the device's battery

Comments

Firefox removed support for the API in Firefox 52 due to privacy concerns. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/5U8NHoUY-1k/9ybyzQIYCAAJ

Demos

• https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/battery-status
• http://jsbin.com/battery-status-test
• http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/samdutton/simpl/blob/master/battery/index.html

Documentation

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Status_API

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>PermissionsAPI

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 38
• Chrome for Android release 38

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Public skepticism
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: Mixed signals

Owner

• timvolodine@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-09-19