Hundreds of Android games are released every day. To gain our attention, many of those games use paid advertising to drive massive downloads and rise in the Google Play rankings. Due to these practices, the Google Play rankings reflect a distorted view of which apps are the most popular and the most fun. To help […]
Weather is one of the universal talking points among humans, even ones without smartphones. For centuries, or even millennia, weather has been used as an ice breaker during countless conversations every day. For Android users, the question remains: what is the best weather app for Android? For this study, we will look at the M2AppMonitor […]
Mobile devices are essential in keeping us connected with the entire world. Whether you’re interested in the latest world news, juicy celebrity gossip, or tasty recipes, there’s an Android app to keep all your interests organized. With plenty of Android options for consuming news content, consumers have hundreds of news apps vying for their attention. […]
It’s a wild game when it comes to CPU usage for Android apps. Though many apps do an excellent job regulating their CPU usage, there is still an abundance of apps that have a CPU usage of 50% or more. Suffice to say, when our devices start acting slower than normal – to the point […]
We all know how important a device’s battery life is to us. Apps are devious little things in that they will consume resources from your device simply from running in the background – one of the fastest ways a device’s battery life looses its energy. Users are constantly writing reviews and blogs on the importance […]
We conclude social media week by exploring the M2AppMonitor community to find out how much data each popular social media app on Android consumes on average. Unfortunately for us, the saying “money doesn’t grow on trees” can also be seen as “Free data doesn’t grow on trees”. If you are one of the fortunate ones […]
In yesterday’s post, the M2 Community showed which popular Android social media apps, such as Facebook, Youtube, Google Plus and Twitter, spend more than 90% of the time running in the background. Today, we will take this study a step forward by revealing the average battery usage of the top Android social networking apps. Social networks are […]
Here we are again – sitting on the couch with our phones, browsing what looks like to be an endless amount of apps in the app store as we try to find the ideal app that will satisfy our needs. With over 1 million Android apps in the Google Play store, and counting, it is […]
As a billion consumers know all too well, the continuous expansion of the Android app universe comes with a steep price – data, CPU, memory, and battery overload are among many problems that threaten to slow or even crash phones, run up phone bills needlessly, and even open access to all of the user’s personal […]
Smartphones are steadily becoming an even more important aspect of our lives. We rely on our phones to make our lives easier and more enjoyable. That’s why it is essential for our phones and tablets to last as long as possible to help get us through the day. As you can read in our past […]
