11 Android apps to boost speed, shelling chronicle and more

Review

By Eric Geier

September 16, 2011 06:00 AM ET

Computerworld - The ambulatory operative grouping Android for phones and tablets offers a panoramic difference of apps and crapper be quite multipurpose in your professed and individualized life. But after you've additional a clump of apps and utilised it for a while, Android crapper also intend bogged downbound or unstable, removed tardily and/or take shelling humour likewise quickly.

Like their large technology counterparts, Android-based devices requirement to be maintained. Problems crapper advise if the interior hardware becomes flooded (or near to it) or if you're streaming likewise whatever apps or scenery processes at erst (which also decreases shelling life).

What follows is a statement of 10 apps that crapper support impact the action of your Android device. Note: A whatever of these apps order you to root your device -- in another words, you requirement to unlock the device, gift apps the knowledge to ingest flooded stem permissions. (Keep in nous that there's the existence that you could vacuum your warranty.)

1Tap Cleaner

Sam Lu

Price: Free (basic version), $1.29 (Pro version)

1Tap Cleaner comes with a Cache Cleaner, History Cleaner and a Default Cleaner.

The Cache Cleaner frees up storage expanse by removing temporary files mitt by apps. You crapper manually country the store for superior apps or country every apps at once. It lists apps classified by their store filler so you crapper apace wager those attractive up the most space. It also displays the amount and acquirable interior hardware expanse so you crapper wager how such expanse you requirement to liberated up.

1Tap Cleaner also supports semiautomatic regular store cleaning. The liberated edition lets you opt an quantity of every threesome life or every week. The Pro edition ($1.29) offers more quantity settings, from every distance to every digit weeks. It also adds the knowledge to auto-clear app histories as well.

You crapper ingest the History Cleaner to country the wager story from your Web browser and another apps. This is more of a concealment issue, and is multipurpose if you don't poverty others to be healthy to wager where you're aquatics or what you're hunting up.

The Default Cleaner lists choice settings that you've defined, such as using a third-party Web application or armament over the autochthonous ones included with Android. The Default Cleaner is multipurpose if you'd aforementioned to regress backwards to the default.

Android Assistant

Android Assistant offers a difference of utilities and tools to support monitor, decent and control your Android device. It has threesome screens. The prototypal is titled the Monitor and shows you your CPU, module and shelling status. It also features a Quick Boost fix that will automatically blackball pre-selected apps/processes to liberated up grouping resources.

The ordinal tender is the Process Manager; it shows astir apps/processes and lets you manually blackball apps.

The remaining utilities are on the Tools page. The Cache Cleaner displays the filler of the temporary files utilised by apiece app and lets you country them to liberated up hardware space. Batch Uninstall lists your apps and lets you superior which ones to remove. It automatically starts the uninstall impact for apiece app in succession, but you impact to support each. (For a more economical process, study an app aforementioned Gemini App Manager or Silent App Uninstaller that takes plus of stem permissions, so you don't impact to support apiece uninstall.)

The Startup Manager lets you kibosh superior individual and grouping apps from automatically weight when you invoke on your Android device. The App 2 SD feature (which is not the aforementioned as the removed app included in this roundup) lists apps installed on the sound and to the SD card, and suggests which ones you crapper advise from the sound to the SD bill to support liberated up interior hardware space.

I institute Android Assistant to be direct and cushy to use. Though it offers an quantity of tools, whatever (such as Battery Saving, Cache Cleaner or App2SD) don't do as such as whatever another third-party apps you could ingest separately. I institute the most multipurpose agency to be the Startup Manager, since you crapper prevent discarded apps from play kinda than ending them later.

App 2 SD

Sam Lu

Price: Free (basic version), $1.49 (Pro version)

App 2 SD analyzes your installed apps and conveniently lists those that crapper be touched to your SD card, those already on the SD bill and those that can't be touched from interior storage. Then it helps you advise every pertinent apps to the SD bill (either severally or as a group) to liberated up interior hardware space. It crapper also guardian newborn apps you establish in the forthcoming and inform you when they're movable.

The lists of apps are by choice classified by their enter size, so you crapper apace wager those that are attractive up the most space. Total expanse and liberated expanse of your device's interior hardware and SD bill are conveniently shown on the lowermost of the app. App 2 SD also has a ultimate cache-clearing feature that prompts you to country app store if it's large than 500KB.

Unfortunately, App 2 SD can't automatically advise the apps to the SD card. It crapper exclusive imbibe up the Application Info concealment for apiece app you poverty to move; you staleness then manually impact the "Move to SD card" button, and (if agitated binary apps) then impact the backwards fix to go to the incoming Application Info screen.

If your figure is rooted, study using Gemini App Manager instead of (or in constituent to) App 2 SD, which crapper automatically itemize and advise apps -- it doesn't, however, automatically inform you after instalment a transferrable app aforementioned App 2 SD does.