With BOINC for Android, your phone can do more than just charge its battery when connected to a wall outlet.
The new BOINC app for Android allows your phone to perform "volunteer computing," using spare processing power to contribute to scientific research projects. Just by leaving their phones on the charger, users can, for example, help analyze telescope data in the search for radio pulsars or help identify drugs with the right chemical makeup to treat AIDS.
You can monitor and tweak BOINC on your Android phone.
Although the BOINC project has been around for over 10 years, and is already available for laptops and desktop computers, it's just now coming to Android as a free app. Setting up the app is fairly simple, though you do have to register online with the computing program of your choice before you may contribute.
To prevent itself from killing your battery or consuming too much wireless data, BOINC only works by default when the phone is charging, is connected to Wi-Fi, and has over 90 percent of its battery life remaining.
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