One thing that every smartphone user hates is all the useless software installed in the operating system, and although we have seen a lot of improvements in the operating system, there is still a lot to deal with. Thankfully, Android 14 appears to have a feature that will save you from bloatware, and not only that, but this new discovery could actually help extend your phone's battery life.
Mishaal Rahman mentioned that Android 14 has a feature that reduces the memory and battery usage of all pre-installed applications. During the scanning process, if an application with "Export Launcher Activity" is found, the application will be in a "stopped" state until the user opens it.
Mishal further explained this: "This means that many pre-installed applications that users can launch will not consume system resources until the user actually launches them." He also talked about how Google described this feature of Android 14 as "significantly reducing system resource (such as memory or battery) usage."
As far as this feature is concerned, Google has planned to enable this feature in the Android open source project, and will also allow all Android OEM manufacturers to choose not to use this feature. OEMs can also opt-in and even add specific pre-installed apps to the allowed list so they can consume system resources without going through the boot process.
Rahman also mentioned how Google Mobile Services bundles are coming to multiple OEMs, which actually already include multiple Google apps, since Google apps are essential for any Android phone.
The point is, if all OEMs implement this feature correctly, we'll see big improvements in the way Android phones running Android 14 and future versions behave. We'll just have to wait and see if these features actually make it to the final version of Android.