Android is a powerful system, a flexible operating system, which works well on almost any smartphone (unless it's too cheap or old, but that's another matter). The problem of freedom left to users who use an Android smartphone is the wrong combination of installed applications or simply the presence of too many simultaneously active apps that eat all the system resources and slow down every operation. This is a very common problem, after a certain period of use, for those who are used to installing many apps, but also for those who use the phone with little maintenance. There are several applications to optimize Android, but for this guide we will show you how to use what we believe to be the best app in the category, namely Droid Optimizer . At the end of the guide we will have a complete app that can speed up and clean Android, so as to make the smartphone (okay for Samsung, Huawei and all those with Android system) more fluid and more pleasant to use.
How to download Droid Optimizer
If our Android smartphone is too slow to open the apps, we immediately download Droid Optimizer on our device, so that we can have full control over all the hardware present.
After pressing the Install button, we confirm that we are at least 16 years old, we tap Accept and continue and we confirm all the permissions required to start using the app.
If by chance the app is not present on the Play Store of our device, we can always download the Droid Optimizer APK from the APKPure site, then install it on the device by unlocking the Unknown Origins from the Settings or (from Android 8.0 onwards) by unlocking the permissions installation for the browser from which we downloaded the APK (the precise path to unlock this feature is Settings -> Apps and notifications -> Advanced -> Special access to apps -> Install unknown apps ).
How to use Droid Optimizer
After installation we will have access to the main screen of the app, with all its features in the foreground.
Let's analyze all the elements of the screen one at a time, so we can speed up and clean Android effectively.
Let's start from the top: by pressing on one of the three circles (similar to the car's tachometer), we will have access to faster cleaning functions, with which we can check the remaining space in the internal memory, the apps open in RAM memory (with a convenient button to close them all together) and finally a menu where you can check for unnecessary files.
The latter function (Android Cleaning) can also be called up by pressing the Cleaning button: from this menu we can start searching for unnecessary files, program the automatic start of the cleaner, stop all the apps in the background and quickly clean the system cache.
By pressing instead on Automatic mode, we will be able to program the start of the cleaner at the times we deem most appropriate: the app allows you to plan the cleaning even at night, so as to have the system quick and quick when you wake up.
Instead, using the App Manager menu, we will have access to all the apps on the system, with the possibility of uninstalling the superfluous or little used ones with a single click (we select the apps to uninstall and press the trash can button to delete them).
The last menu that we find inside the app, Privacy Advisor, allows you to check all the permissions of the app and to report as suspicious those that use too many permissions or that control important parts of the operating system: even in this case we can uninstall a or multiple apps together.
If we want a widget to be able to quickly clean the whole system, without even opening the app, we configure what to do in the Speed menu with a touch, choosing the elements to optimize (cache, background app and also wanting the contents of folders, so as to always have a lot of space available). Once this quick cleaning mode is configured, we open the Widget menu of our phone (by holding down the finger anywhere on the homscreen) then add one of the widgets offered by Droid Optimizer.
If, on the other hand, we want to check the performance of the phone's battery, we tap the battery icon at the top right, so that we can receive valuable information such as percentage of the remaining battery, operating temperature and maximum available charge; to check the real consumption of the apps and hardware components, we can use the App power consumption button, located in the center of the screen.
Alternatives to Droid Optimizer
Droid Optimizer is really one of the best cleaners and accelerators that we can try on Android, but if we are not satisfied we recommend trying the best Apps to clean Android from unnecessary files that take up space, among which we have:
- CCleaner for Android
- Clean Master
- SD Maid
- Google Go files
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All the recommended apps are free, so we can test them without problems on any Android smartphone in need of an "accelerated".
Conclusions
For many years there has been a debate on the usefulness of the "Booster" apps, which (according to promises) can solve all the speed problems of a slow Android.
Now we can say that most of the functions reviewed within Droid Optimizer (but also of the other apps indicated) are already available within Android, so these apps are useful only if we are not experts of all the menus of Android and we need a single place where we can start a complete and effective cleaning of the smartphone or tablet.
If you want to avoid using these apps and get by with the tools provided by Android itself, we invite you to read our guides on How to empty the Android cache and recover memory, such as Freeing up Android space on internal memory and SD card and finally How to Free RAM on Android .
