What do mobile apps have in common? Snapchat, Facebook, Spotify or musical.ly? All of them occupied the front ranks in the regular review of the most demanding in terms of performance Android application that he prepared avast Software, the global leader in digital device security for homes and businesses.
In message Avast Android App Performance & Trend Report for the third quarter of 2016, the company presented a ranking of applications that slow down the performance of phones with the operating system the most Android. The results are a calculation of the effect of the given application on how quickly the battery drains, how much space it takes up in the phone's memory and how much mobile data it uses.
An overview of the applications that users turn on themselves and that slow down the performance of their phones the most leads Snapchat. A new dating site appears in it tinder, book application Wattpad or news The Guardian.
For a change, it tops the list of applications that the phone starts automatically at start-up Facebook and newly added for example Mail Online whether whatscall.
Several applications, on the other hand, appeared newly in the top ten:
Musical.ly: The app, used by an average of 150 million teenagers to create their own versions of music videos of popular songs, has become a huge hit. However, internal testing has shown that the app only takes two hours to completely drain a fully charged phone while viewing individual clips. A few minutes spent watching 25 clips also used 100MB of data. If repeated daily, we would very quickly exceed the limit of the average monthly data plan. The app also took up most of the phone's storage capacity and basically tops the list of apps that take up the most space on the phone.
whatscall: A relatively new rival to Skype, the app is very demanding on battery life, as it constantly runs in the background of the phone, even when the user is not on the phone or otherwise using it. At the same time, it finished sixth in the ranking of applications that consume the most data.
Wattpad: This app ended up in the third place of the most demanding apps mainly because of its system of recurring notification messages and following other users, which leads to continuous checking and searching for book news.
On the other hand, many applications have recently improved their performance and dropped out of the top ten - specifically, for example ChatOn, Kik Messenger, WhatsApp or WeChat, SoundCloud, Mozilla Browser and BBC iPlayer.
“Smartphones have become the center of our digital lives and people expect not only to be sufficiently secure, but also to have an enjoyable experience using them,” described Gagan Singh, director of Avast's mobile division, adding: “This research helped us identify specific issues , which bother mobile phone users and we can now help them better. The app performance ranking is a concrete example of how we want to make it easier for users to navigate how to use apps so they can take full advantage of all the benefits and capacity of their phone."
Another tool that will help clean and optimize the functioning of the mobile phone is an application AVG Cleaner for Android, thanks to which the user has an overview of the applications that drain the phone's battery the most.
Methodology:
Avast Android App Performance & Trend Report (formerly AVG App Report) summarizes and analyzes aggregated and anonymized data from over 3 million Android facilities worldwide. The study includes data for the period July - September 2016 and only deals with applications that are available on Google Play and have a minimum of 50 downloads.
