I have played around with android since Eclair, and I am disappointed with the weight (and general sluggishness, but that's not the point of this topic) that everything has gotten to take. (ie: Facebook went from ~10Mb to 242Mb, Kindle weighs 150mb etc).
I understand that some of it is because of new features, but I gather that aside from the general ****ty idea that 'phones are getting faster and have more space therefore let's use that up', a lot of the weight comes from multiple drawables, libs, and entire portions of apps are written in order to adress the humongous variety of android devices with one small .apk . Maybe some of the weight is used to store additional hidden cache content so that stuff loads faster [I'm talking about 'app' size, not user data and cache] , but it's hard for me to believe that a simple bookstore would weigh double as full scale apps like MS office, photo editing apps or other very complex apps.
Which brings me to my point:
Is there a way to clean up app content (and system, while we're at it) so as to free up some space?
Obviously it would be a root app :cowboy: , but the old Cydia app called 'iCleaner' which did exactly what I'm suggesting worked miracles. It removed drawables and incompatible libraries meant for other resolutions/devices (say, non-retina iPhones, iPad, 4" iPhone 5, if you had an iPhone 4) when an app had the right ones, and only kept the closest when there wasn't. Then it would remove most useless junk (no one needs 42 languages!), and the adequate translations in every app, and some other iPhone-only junk which I can easily linken to 8 F**** GB /SYSTEM ON SAMSUNG PHONES.
Apps were instantly faster because it would free up part of the RAM, and weighed around 25% less (even more after iPad Retina got out). I know that on high-end phones it does not matter a lot, but on general principle it seems to make more sense.
And people can always update back to stock apps when they like because hey, it looks as though no one ever implemented that sweet Jelly Bean feature of incremental updates to decrease download data!
Slightly getting off-topic, but if such an app did exist (or one of you angels at xda wanted to make one) it would be great that it also allowed to choose which bloatware to kill off on stock ROMs, aroma-style.
Thank you a lot for the attention, and keep me updated!
I understand that some of it is because of new features, but I gather that aside from the general ****ty idea that 'phones are getting faster and have more space therefore let's use that up', a lot of the weight comes from multiple drawables, libs, and entire portions of apps are written in order to adress the humongous variety of android devices with one small .apk . Maybe some of the weight is used to store additional hidden cache content so that stuff loads faster [I'm talking about 'app' size, not user data and cache] , but it's hard for me to believe that a simple bookstore would weigh double as full scale apps like MS office, photo editing apps or other very complex apps.
Which brings me to my point:
Is there a way to clean up app content (and system, while we're at it) so as to free up some space?
Obviously it would be a root app :cowboy: , but the old Cydia app called 'iCleaner' which did exactly what I'm suggesting worked miracles. It removed drawables and incompatible libraries meant for other resolutions/devices (say, non-retina iPhones, iPad, 4" iPhone 5, if you had an iPhone 4) when an app had the right ones, and only kept the closest when there wasn't. Then it would remove most useless junk (no one needs 42 languages!), and the adequate translations in every app, and some other iPhone-only junk which I can easily linken to 8 F**** GB /SYSTEM ON SAMSUNG PHONES.
Apps were instantly faster because it would free up part of the RAM, and weighed around 25% less (even more after iPad Retina got out). I know that on high-end phones it does not matter a lot, but on general principle it seems to make more sense.
And people can always update back to stock apps when they like because hey, it looks as though no one ever implemented that sweet Jelly Bean feature of incremental updates to decrease download data!
Slightly getting off-topic, but if such an app did exist (or one of you angels at xda wanted to make one) it would be great that it also allowed to choose which bloatware to kill off on stock ROMs, aroma-style.
Thank you a lot for the attention, and keep me updated!
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