The newest edition of the AVG Android App Performance Report has come out, and it shows that music streaming apps, shopping apps, and some new games are causing your smartphone and tablet the biggest drains, in terms of battery life, data plan, and the phone storage itself. Those conclusions don’t really come as a surprise, but they might help you solve storage and battery problems, if you’re willing to part from those apps if needed.

A lot of people love Spotify of course (except Taylor Swift) but according to AVG, it is now has second spot on their performance-affecting apps list. Facebook, is of course, still number 1, due to its background notification checks (which some people can’t live without). Because the results are from the last quarter of 2014, Amazon’s Android app also climbed up the list, ranking 5th in the most all-around, resource-consuming apps. The good news for video streaming addicts is that Netflix isn’t in the table anymore, ever since their November update that has significantly reduced battery drain.

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Another significant observation from their report is that the trend in games has once again shifted, as before FarmVille and Puzzle & Dragons were at the top of the gaming chart, but now, they’ve experienced a “major decline”. But games like Boom Beach and Deer Hunter 2014 are the ones occupying a lot of storage space in a lot of mobile users’ devices. Meanwhile, tools like Clean Master or Samsung’s Security Policies, which will supposedly help your device perform better, are actually draining your smartphones and tablets. So you might reconsider installing those “helping” tools.

The report is data culled from over one million users of the AVG Android app for the 4th quarter of 2014. If you’d like to study the report more, which breaks down the performance impact more thoroughly, you can download a free copy from AVG Now.

SOURCE: AVG

1 COMMENT

  1. I don’t know how Spotify can be so popular when it’s got one of the worse UIs that I have ever seen. Wife and I got free trials from Sprint and let them expire. YouTube does a far better job at suggestions and has a wider variety. Granted it doesn’t do playlists but they’re a mess in Spotify and barely useable.

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