Will playing a game in a Android phone while charging damage or cause harm to the battery or the phone?

Question

Will the following situation damage or cause any harm to the battery or/and the phone:

• The phone is being charging (regardless it is using the electrical outlet or via USB) and ..
• You are playing a game while the phone is being charging and ..
• You will be playing the game for 5 hours or more.

In another word, if you will be playing a android game in a android phone for 5 hours or more while the android phone is being charging, will it cause any damage or harm to the android phone and/or the battery inside the android phone?

Answer 1

Playing while charging does not damage the battery or phone directly.

The only problem is that:

battery gets warmer when is charging, and phone also gets hot when playing. So, when you play while charging, phone gets too hot and we know that battery life would be affected when it works in very hot conditions.

Sources to read more:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_heat_and_harsh_loading_reduces_battery_life

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

Answer 2

I've been doing this everytime. Been playing games (e.g. Wild Blood) while charging for several hours mostly at night before i go to sleep and eventually damaged the power ic of my phone and a couple of resistors.