How to keep useful but rarely used apps uninstalled in the phone (ready-to-install, ideally including their settings)? Currently I have installed ~500 apps, mostly productivity apps and tools of various types.

I would like to have only ~100 most frequent apps installed and keep the rest (~400) uninstalled, stored in the file system along with their settings. If needed, I would like to restore such a stored app (ideally including its settings), use it and when no longer needed, archive + uninstall again.

The sample of such an app is a Latin lexicon or some infrequently used measurement tool.

Is there an app or some procedure for this task? Or the truth is that there is no tool which can easily backup and restore settings of 3rd-party apps (only the APKs themselves)? Could you refer to a tool who could at least partially automate this? At least some APK install+deinstall tool keeping user-friendly record about each app and showing Archive/Restore button next to it?



The reason of my expectation is unnecessarily high battery consumption with ~500 installed apps, because many of them also install their own services, slowing down the device. I want to have them at hand if needed (including their settings) but normally keep them away from the OS.

The phone is not rooted.
You can go to Settings > Backup &amp; reset > set Back up my data to ON. Set/select a backup account, then enable Automatic restore.

If the phone was rooted, Titanium Backup is probably what you should try.


  You can backup, restore, freeze (with Pro) your apps + data + Market links. This includes all protected apps &amp; system apps, plus external data on your SD card. 


From its website:


  Titanium Backup is a backup utility for Android that backs up your system and user applications along with their data on external storage of your choice


Edit: OP could also use adb backup as described on this answer

Edit 2: Below is the response I received from Google Product Forum after asking if the backup data of a removed app are removed during the next sync,