Although today’s smartphones usually carry a generous amount of “gigabytes”, they end up proving insufficient when we accumulate photos, videos, applications, documents, WhatsApp images and even our own music for years.
That’s why we see the dreaded “memory full” message, it may even be that your mobile is still showing it using a memory card. Thanks to some tools, like Google Files, we can make space by deleting up to 20 GB. But what we are going to see now has nothing to do with deleting files or cleaning memory: we abuse apps, but you don’t need them, so you can replace them.
Apps grow over time
What a space my new mobile has! That’s what I usually say every time I switch generations and opt for buy a new computer. Accustomed to older memories, my surprise is great when I really see all the space I have.
However, the surprise remains just that, just a first surprise. When a few months pass, the applications I install, the wallpapers I use, the photos I take… all the elements saved on my mobile they make storage less infinite as it was at the beginning.
However, everything has a solution and our tendency to install all apps that we find interesting (and don’t use) doesn’t help much. Apps increase in weight day by day. The reasons ? Well, updates that add functions (thus more weight), cache memory and other parts such as user data.
Webapps to the rescue!
So, you might be wondering how to replace apps if more than one is needed. Well here is the end Web application to save the day: these are tools, like common applications, but which They depend on a web server and a browser that allows them to be displayed. Most of the websites we access daily have their own Web application. YouTube is no exception and we’ve talked about it on other occasions.
The main advantage of these is that take up minimal space, as they need a permanent connection to the Internet, they do not store data in the memory of our device. So, from now on, do this exercise: Before downloading an app from the Google Play Store (or in APK format), go to the company’s website and check if the features you need are available .
If so, you can use the Web application in question without any problem. see now how to install them and place them on the home screen, as we would with any other application. As we mentioned, it is necessary to use the web browser that we usually use.
For example, in the case of Google Chrome, which is one of the most used browsers, the process it will take us away, if anything, a minute. Enter a service that has a Web application
You will see a new icon on the desktop of your Android mobile, from which we will access the application in question. And it is that it will occupy much less than the native option. He crop function it will depend on how well your web version is implemented, for example, the light version of Twitter is almost identical to the traditional app and we don’t lose any important features along the way.
It’s a easy way to save space to dedicate it to other more important files, such as personal photographs or private documents. Without a doubt, it is a very useful idea and it is appreciated that the companies themselves are committed to this technology which minimizes the number of applications that we have to install.
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