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Android and Android phones

-Kimura, Dominick N.

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Android

Android is the world's most popular mobile platform. With Android you can use all the Google apps you know and love, plus there are more than 600,000 apps and games available on Google Play to keep you entertained, alongside millions of songs and books, and thousands of movies. Android devices are already smart, and will only get smarter, with new features you won't find on any other platform, letting you focus on what's important and putting you in control of your mobile experience.





Search the web

The fastest, easiest way to find what you need on the web and your phone or tablet. Enjoy the power of Google search wherever you are. Browse fast on your Android phone or tablet with Chrome. Bring your personalized Chrome experience with you anywhere you go.


Your stuff, always available, no wires needed

When you sign in to your phone or tablet with Google, you can access all of your Google stuff (contacts, photos, Gmail and more) quickly and easily. You can also enjoy all of your favorite entertainment across your Android devices and even your computer — no wires, no syncing.

Play everywhere you go Google Play is the easiest way to enjoy all your favorites

— no wires, no hassle, just pure entertainment. You can now read, listen and watch anywhere you want — on your tablet, phone, or in any browser at play.google.com. Forget about cables and syncing: your favorite music, movies, books, apps and games are instantly available across all of your devices and on the web.


The World’s Most Popular Platform

Millions of people already use Android because it makes your mobile device so much more powerful and useful. On Android, the home screen, web browser, email and everything in between are designed to make your life easier. And because Android is open, you can create a unique mobile experience that’s just right for you.




Widgets

Put the important stuff right within reach and interact with your favorite apps directly from your home screen with widgets — see the latest sport scores, view your favorite photos, check the weather or peek at your inbox all without having to open different apps or leave the home screen.

Notifications

An easy-to-read notification tray gives you quick access to your calls, incoming texts, and new emails in a non-intrusive way.

Multi-tasking

With Android, you can quickly and seamlessly switch between apps and pick up whatever you were doing. Juggling multiple tasks at once on a mobile device has never been easier.


Voice typing and actions

Control your Android device with your voice. Simply touch the microphone on the keyboard and start talking to write emails, SMS, or any other text — more than 30 languages supported. Text appears in real time, so there’s no waiting.


Photos and videos

Capture special moments with great photos and videos, explore your shots and quickly share your favorites in any way that you want.

Beyond Smart

Your Android device is already smart, and it’s only going to get smarter. Android was the first to bring you features on certain devices like Face Unlock which uses facial recognition to let you unlock your device with a smile, Android Beam which lets you share contacts, directions and more by touching two devices together, and Google Now which brings you just the right information, before you even ask.




10 Essential Tips To Increase Android’s Performance

1. Know Your Device It is important that you learn about the capabilities

and drawbacks of your phone. Don’t overburden your phone with resource-hungry apps which would otherwise degrade your phone’s performance at your expense.

2. Update Your Android If you haven’t updated your Android phone to the

latest firmware, you should. Google brings great improvements to each new release of the Android operating system, including updates that ensure stability, higher performance speed and connectivity along with other user-friendly new features.





3. Remove Unwanted Apps Every app you install in your phone take

some storage space and runs some background processes. The more storage space occupied or the more background processes running on your phone, the slower your phone’s performance.

Don’t install apps you hardly use. Keep only the apps that you need and if you have got an app that isn’t really useful, you can uninstall or disable it.


4. Disable Unnecessary Apps ‘Performance assistant’ was introduced in Android ICS to

help you disable apps that you don’t need. Disabling apps is different from uninstalling apps uninstallation remove application files from the phone but no file is removed/deleted when you disable it. These disabled apps are not shown on the home screen or app tray but you can re-enable them for use whenever you need them. 5. Update Apps

You should regularly update your phone’s installed apps from Google Play. Try to get updates your apps when they are available in Google Play. Developers fix bugs and add features in new released versions of apps. Updated apps perform better and faster, and will less likely crash your phone.



6. Use High-Speed Memory Card The memory card is the storage space of your

phone. Phones with low internal memory can get a boost from high-capacity memory cards for maximum storage space. But it adds not only capacity but also speed to the mix. You can get between 2GB to 32GB worth of storage space to support high speed read/write operations. Always go for memory cards of Class 6 or Class 10 for your Android phone if you seek performance for your phone.



7. Keep Fewer Widgets Widgets are not apps, which only run once you

choose to activate them. No, widgets are always running in the background; they are active all the time. While some Android users use it to keep track of the weather, and their important dates, others use widgets like ‘Extended controls’ for quick access for essential configurations such as switching Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or their GPS on or off.

They do have their uses but bear in mind that having too many of them running on your homescreen will cause your device’s performance to slow down.



8. Avoid Live Wallpapers You must be loving Android’s live wallpaper

feature. Phones (from different manufacturers) come with different live wallpapers but you should know that live wallpapers that are badly made will need more CPU cycles to run, thus draining the battery faster. Everytime you activate the home screen, you run not only your apps but also your live wallpaper.


9. Stop Syncing Sync is a very good feature which synchronizes your

data with Google servers. Keeping sync on, you can get notifications whenever new mail comes in or when you get new notifications or updates for apps. To do this, it does a refresh at every preset interval (e.g. it checks your mail every 5 minutes for new incoming mail), and this will eat into your android’s performance for other activities.

You can keep Sync off for unrequired services or only have it on when you need to transfer or upload materials to Google servers.


10. Turn Off Animations What animations? Well, if you haven’t noticed, your

phone screen actually fades out and in as you switch from one task to the other. To see this in action Go to Settings > Developer Options > Window Animation Scale > Animation scale 10x. Then choose Window Animation Scale again to see the fade in effect in ‘slow-mo’.

When you choose Animation off, the screen just snaps to position without animation. You can also turn off Transition Animation Scale in the same way. If you are a heavy user, you’d probably notice that your Android performs faster with all animations off.



BONUS: Root Your Android As Android is built on the Linux kernel, like any other OS, it also

can be rooted. Rooting your Android gives you administrator level access on your phone, which means that you can uninstall the apps that came with your phone but may not be what you want to use.

When Not to Root There are a number of factors against rooting your Android

device; for one thing, most manufacturers deem your phone warranty voided if your phone has been rooted. You also need to know what you are doing to avoid screwing everything up, beyond repair. This is called ‘bricking’ a.k.a. turning your phone into a useless brick. So think it through before you use this method to enhance the performance of your Android.






Respectfully submitted to Prof. Erwin M. Globio, MSIT