AMSTERDAM, July 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AVG®
Technologies (NYSE: AVG), the leading provider of software services
to secure devices, data and people, revealed that Snapchat, YouTube
and Google Maps are the top 3 apps most likely to drain Android
device resources. The AVG Android App Performance and Trend Report
H1 2016 outlines, for the period of January through April, 2016,
which of the most popular apps had the most pronounced effect on
battery, storage and data, highlighting that photo, video and
location apps likely contribute most to draining device battery
life, in particular.
The H1 2016 report also recognizes 'most improved' apps, such as
Netflix, previously a top 'resource hog,' but which did not make
our top 10 charts this time around. Similarly, AppLock, a password
protector for smart phones that showed up among the current
report's top 10 battery-draining apps, has improved its performance
since this April, indicating that the app's latest update may have
addressed the problem.
In our internal testing of most-used apps' behaviors, it appears
that while Snapchat removes images and videos from conversations,
the app's cache is only partially deleted. We also found that
YouTube stores a fair amount of cached files, as much as 270 MB.
The remaining apps on AVG's top 10 lists for H1 comprise mostly
similar messaging, video, music and shopping apps—unsurprising
inclusions on lists of resource-taxing apps. However, an
interesting exception to this pattern is The Weather Channel app,
which initiates at start-up (which users likely do not realize),
immediately drawing on your network plan.
"Our latest report exposes some quirky app behavior. For
instance, I question why a weather app needs to be constantly
connected rather than updating on demand," said Tony Anscombe, senior security evangelist for
AVG Technologies. "You could also say that Snapchat's keeping
cached files around undermines its Mission Impossible-esque
'self-destruct' approach to messaging. Ultimately, if you have more
than a few of these apps or types of apps on your phone or tablet,
they could be to blame for those annoyingly regular low battery or
low storage notifications."
The report also highlighted other interesting general app usage
trends, including:
- Today's average Android smartphone and tablet user has 33
apps installed on their device.
- The 50 most-used apps include obvious entries, like
Android's own Google Search box or YouTube, but also surprises,
such as TripAdvisor, which has increasingly started pushing users
from its website to the mobile app.
- Seven of the top 10 most-used smartphones are
2-4-year-old Samsung Galaxy S phones. Sony Xperia devices make up
the remainder of this list.
An all-in-one cleaner and optimizer like AVG
CleanerTM for AndroidTM can help keep tabs on
the top mobile resource-hogging apps on your devices.
The full report can be downloaded here.
Methodology
The AVG App Report was gathered from a
sample of aggregated and anonymized data from more than 3 million
Android users around the globe. The app data included in this
report covers a time period of January
2016 through April 2016 and
only includes Google Play applications where AVG observed a minimum
sample size of 50,000 usage incidents.
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