Within the world of applications for Android, there are many of the so-called tools that supposedly serve to optimize Android and make the world's most used mobile operating system more efficient. But what is true in these applications? Are they really effective and necessary for the good performance of our Android terminal?
Next I am going to give you my personal point of view about these applications that among their characteristics and functionalities promise us to optimize Android to get a better performance from our terminals than in itself, at least the mid-range and high-end terminals, They are true laptops with technical specifications that often surpass laptops.
Mainly in this category of applications o tools that promise to optimize Android for a much faster, fluid or even much safer operation, we usually find two large groups. The first of these could be the calls cleaning applications o cleaning apps, which are usually composed of several tools such as RAM free space, cache cleaner or file search engines by weight to know what kind of files are occupying the internal memory of our Android devices.
These applications called "Cleaners", for me personally they are a clear scam and hindrance for our Android terminal. First of all because our own Android operating system, within its Settings / Applications They already have tools that will, for example, clear cache memory releasing it without the need for external tools of any kind that all they do is fill the internal memory of our Androids with useless applications.
As for the part of the RAM memory of whether or not to clean it manually, to use or not to use external tools to do it. I'm just going to tell you a phrase: «RAM is to be used and Android is efficient enough, especially from versions 4.0 onwards, to automatically manage RAM memory and close applications that we have stopped using when managing our operating system requires more RAM and more system resources. ».
A good proof of this can be found when we have several open applications running in the background and we try to run a game or application considered heavy, at that time, The Android operating system is capable of closing all the applications that we have running in the background, to give priority to the execution of the aforementioned application or game. Has it ever happened to us that when leaving a game of your favorite game we have found that the RAM memory of our Android terminal is totally free as if we had used one of these RAM memory cleaning tools?
The only thing we get with these RAM unlocking or cleaning tools is consuming more battery, since when eliminating the applications stored in the RAM, the operating system has to reopen them completely with the consequent extra expense of resources and considerable drain on the battery of our Android terminal.
Regarding the category of applications named uncertainly antivirus for android, most of them to begin with are a sham or scam that the only thing they do on the user is the so-called placebo effect, or what is the same, they offer us an unreal and uncertain security that can even be dangerous.
Then there are some antivirus programs that are actually applications that are supposedly designed to protect our Android, although I already told you that they are the least, but They are so green or are too safe that they won't even leave you install an application in APK format because surely, in most cases they will detect it as a trojan or virus.
In the case of antivirus for Android is not necessary for me since it will only be enough to follow certain common sense rules to be safe from the various threats that threaten the Android operating system. Some safety rules that we can summarize in these points:
- Try download only apps from the official Android app store. I mean the Google Play Store.
- In the case of installing applications external to the Android Market, always be sure of the site where we download it and that the source is safe.
- Do not browse pornographic sites with our Android since that is where most of the threats to our terminals are found.
- Always look at the permissions that applications ask us that we are going to install on our Android, even those that we download or install from official stores such as the Play Store or Amazon Apps.
- Connect to trusted Wi-Fi networks.
- Do not connect our Android to unfamiliar computers such as call shops, public libraries, etc., etc.
- Have USB debugging disabled and only activate it when we really need it.
- Have the permissions to install applications from unknown sources disabled. We will only activate them when we really need them.
As you can see, all the norms or rules that I have described here are rules of the purest common senseJust as you would not leave your house keys to a stranger or leave them anywhere, the rules to safely use your Android are as simple as those that are governed in your daily life.