why?

  • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Whenever my dad’s tablet gets an OS update it takes about five minutes to “optimize your apps”. I don’t know if it’s effective because the tablet is slow as hell despite being pretty new.

    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s the case for all Android devices. That’s because Android apps are delivered in a platform-independent way (.apk files) and to make apps faster, some code that would normally be run in a VM is compiled to native code to be faster. Updates may change the optimization process, that’s why it’s always done after one.

      Also fuck most Android tablets being slow as hell.

    • criticon@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      If it is a Samsung, boot into recovery mode and clear cache then optimize apps every time after a system update. It’s annoying but it helps with performance and battery life (my experience is with Samsung, could be an android thing)