Has the performance and battery life on your mobile dropped off? A gang of dysfunctional and buggy apps probably cause such decline. Getting rid of the errant apps remains the single best performance enhancing tip. Unfortunately, most users lack the slightest idea of which miscreant apps to kill. This article details 4 apps that specialize in finding and murdering crappy apps - Carat identifies battery wasters. Autokillers can configure to automatically kill bad apps. Permission Explorer helps you find apps with awful permissions. Autorun Manager can prevent bad apps from automatically starting. Introduction Before getting started, there are two important technical concerns that you need to know. First, apps on Android run in both the background and foreground. Foreground apps, the apps that display on your screen, don’t secretly impact your phone’s performance. The delinquent apps running in the background are the ones you must watch for. Second, even after hitting the back button on an application, most programs continue operation in the background. Not all these apps are bad, although some particularly bad examples will heavily impact performance and battery life. These two factors, together, contribute considerably to poor overall performance. Part 1: Carat Some heavy hitting PhD researchers over at the University of California Berkeley came up with a way for Android and iOS users to save battery life. Their software analyzes a user’s apps and usage statistics.
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