Kindle Android Memory Hogging Apps

The apps I have decided to hate because of simple things like move to SD card not being enabled, or even if moved to SD is OK, there is some other “feature” which is annoying (especially high memory use due to lazy programming).

  1. Twitter – on the surface a good app. No SD card, and very large for a texting app. Also should use multi-notifications, but the bird tweets each and every one.
  2. Facebook – this is on the SD card, but will not stop putting over 256 MB into the on-device flash memory. This is likely an arse elbow use of libraries and no common goal to lower the memory usage as it would interfere with competing apps for ad shows.
  3. Messenger – yes another 200 MB of flash busting erm, what exactly?
  4. Basically anything larger than Chrome which doesn’t do something very impressive.

So this on my kindle is (bold for not that impressive), Turmux, Google Play services, Messenger (replaced with Messenger Lite), Facebook (replaced with Facebook Lite), Google Sheets, Java N-IDE, Google Docs, Office Lens, LinkedIn (it went in the bin first, as it was just too big and sucks video bandwidth without options), YouTube and then Chrome. I think this in large part is due to a lack of a move to SD card, and/or then not compressing SQLite databases by using tokenization to an external resource file which can be moved to the SD Card, not compressing resources, adding in much useless animation. I have about 800 MB free. I wonder how long the bold shall last.

There is also the new firmware updates which prevent chrome from saving to the SD card. I think all write permissions are voided except in specific to app directories. The default SD save directory though is not writable. I know it’s new firmware as it used to work before the updates.