How much memory and battery life can save you a single application? Hermit is able to replace all applications requiring a lot of resources while remaining a fairly lightweight application. This is indeed an app that is running the Web version of another app while leaving the possibility to personalize it. This saves you and your synchronizations that use DATA package but also offers more opportunity to customize the notifications and approvals.
- How Hermit?
As one of the many alternatives to Facebook, Hermit offers a supercharged version of the management of Chrome tabs. The application offers a new web site to give it a closer look from that of an application. An icon is thus added to your home screen and the "App LIte" is present in your application drawer (if you have one). In essence, Hermit behaves as a normal application without his additions or adjustments that are often unnecessary.
One of the main advantages of these "Apps Lite" are their real lightness. The only space they occupy on your phone is the space required for the icon, which is almost nonexistent. Hermit himself, occupies less than 1 MB of storage space.
You can manually adjust the frequency of synchronization of your "Apps Lite": every 5 minutes, once a week, never ... With this, you can save enough battery because some applications (eg Facebook) make your device wakes up frequently to check notifications and updates, which reduces the life of your smartphone.
And even if you have set up synchronization with a frequency of five minutes, the application uses the Android API to save the battery, so that even in these conditions you will use less energy than the official Facebook app.
- Why not just use a direct access to Chrome?
Use Hermit avoids third-party cookies. For example, if you go on Facebook, there is no chance that track your activity to take place in your browser. With this lock, you gain in privacy and more advantage of new customization options.
- What is more Hermit?
Not only will you receive notifications of "Apps Lite" you create, but you can also customize. You can decide the appearance of the icon, the sound you want for notifications, the vibration pattern ...
- What's the trick?
There is no catch. This is, in my humble opinion, a great alternative to those applications that are too heavy, poorly designed or filled with useless fontions. Depending on your usage, your economy in memory and independence will be very important. Hermit is fluid and configuration is easy for any user. The developer of the app is even available on Reddit if you have any questions for him.
Only drawback, the free version allows you to have two "Apps Lite" with all its premium features, but if you pay 4.24 euros, you can enjoy the number of small applications that you want.
