If your mobile is not working well, you might have considered installing one of the “miraculous” apps to make Android faster; that although the promises of some of these applications are ridiculous, and in many cases they only offer a placebo effect.
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Somewhat hypocritically, some manufacturers even include these types of applications by default on their phones; although these are their own layers of customization with unnecessary additions that lead to performance hits.
Google opts for “miracle” applications
With Android 14, Google can put an end to these practices, but not suddenly. As discovered by Mishall Rahman, the previous second version of Android 14 has been changed in such a way that these types of apps will lose some of their purpose.
Most apps that promise to “empty” RAM use a system function which is easily accessible through the API by any application; This is because the associated permission can be requested when installing from Google Play and does not require a pop-up window like other permissions such as photo access.
These applications use a system function to force close other apps (also known as “kill”, kill an application); when this happens, the operating system frees the memory used by the “killed” application, which can be used by other applications. In addition, the system can restart the process if necessary (for example, if we open the application again or if it runs normally in the background).
With Android 14, this method of deleting background apps does not work; in tests, the system returns an error message. Therefore, everything indicates that as soon as Android 14 is released, applications will not be able to free memory used by others. Google’s documentation has been updated with this new rule, stating that apps should not use the API function to affect other apps.
Google explains that this method, while it may seem ideal for reclaiming RAM, can actually be detrimental to performance. Android is already designed to “kill” apps automatically when the system needs memory, so there is no need for another application to do so.
Not only that, but arbitrarily killing apps can reduce performance and increase battery consumptionbecause as we said, the system may have to restart closed processes, which will start from scratch consuming more resources.
To all this we must add that Android 14 will come with improvements in memory and energy management. In short, it is very likely that the time of this type of apps is over for better or for worse.
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