Mobile Application Development: Fix errors and Speed up your Android smart phones



Mobile Application Development: Fix errors and Speed up your Android smart phones

It’s not easy to manage the memory of Android phones, which makes it more complicated and difficult to manage your phone’s efficiency. However, with the mobile application development for Android, the problem can be handled properly. Let’s have a look at these tips.



Android smart phones support many task thanks to its open source code. Yet this is also the reason for matters related to lack of knowledge of Android. Due to typical memory management style of Android, the more applications run, the less free memory is for them. This makes your phone slow down and takes a while to change among the applications, which affect the efficiency and battery life as well.

There are some signs to identify this problem as the followings:

1st sign: App suddenly stops

Diagnosis: Download service is forced to stop by the operation system: Get accessed to Setting/Application/Running. If this service restarts, your app is turned off to offer free memory for other applications.




2nd sign: Application on Launcher takes a while to open.

Animated effects turn slow even if you change to another launcher. Your system has to use available memory for other services and activities. Getting accessed to “Running” category, you find out many applications are “restarting” or their active time is short, just a few seconds.

3rd sign: Run out of battery in half a day.

Diagnosis: There are many “implicit” applications which use up your battery. Following up the status of your battery (Setting/ Device/ Battery), you will see a list of running applications along with percentage of battery consumption for each one, meaning that you have launched a lot of applications. That’s the reason why your phone runs out of battery very soon.




There is too little storage for the whole applications installed in your phone. The internal storage of Android phone cannot be extended (not SD card storage), except for buying another one, the only way to solve this problem is to remove some applications that are less frequently used to free your phone’s memory. You had better spend time learning more about Android and find out how to manage the storage, which helps your phone run faster with fewer errors.

Insufficient storage

Android has 3 main storages: RAM (for application to run), Application storage (available and downloaded apps) and SD card (for media file such as music, movie and pictures, additional information storage). Some devices even have internal SD and external SD (SD card –ext) card

It is a complex issue to control RAM of Android because the operating system is based on Linux kernel. Before starting, it takes up 32MB of the internal storage. Then, other applications such as: Google play service, Android system, Android OS, Media Server, etc occupy approximately 65-80 MB. Totally, you have used up about 100-128MB even though you haven’t opened any additional applications.

Moreover, Launcher, your daily application used even without your consciousness, occupies about 8-30 MB. There are many miscellaneous applications from various sections, the external is “process” and the internal is “service”. For the sake of this operation in Android, an app with size of hundreds of KB will increase up to at least 3MB of the storage.

Each widget on the entrance screen is supported by one service. Five widgets will occupy around 20 MB or more, not to mention live wallpaper which takes up about 10-20MB. Those are just examples showing you that your phone uses up at least 200MB before you can download and install any other applications from CH plays.

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?

1.Remove less frequently used applications

The fewer apps run on your phone, the faster it becomes thanks to more available memory. In case you want to mark and save the app to your phone, use Titanium Backup to store it in your SD card. Hence, you just need to download it if needed.

Look for the application that occupies the most of internal storage by getting accessed to Setting/Device/Apps/Downloaded




2.Move the apps to your SD card (if possible)

In fact, the applications should be stored in the internal storage. However, if your phone has micro SD class 10 cards, move the apps to your SD card except for most frequently used ones.

3.Use fewer widgets

Each widget with one or more supporting service taking up 2-4MB of the storage although the widget size is around 100Kb. The more widgets, the less available storage.

4.Don’t use live wallpaper

Live wallpaper takes up at least 2MB, and the more complicated ones takes up around 20MB. They run 24/24 and even bear a burden on CPU and the battery.

5.Switch off unnecessary services

Most of the applications have implicit services accompanied with, which occupy some MB even when your phone is off or you quit the application. Switch it off manually (in category “Running”). In case you rarely use it, remove from your phone.




6.Do not use Task Killer in automatic mode.

Now, thanks to the best Mobile Application Development service, there are many apps created to help turn off unnecessary tasks. Advanced Task Killer or similar apps may obstruct the management of system storage. These apps just temporarily free up the storage. The best solution is to reduce the number of apps running from the beginning. You still can use these apps but had better turn off the automatic mode.

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