So, looking at the Gmail, Twitter, and Facebook apps for example, the apps themselves only take up 3-4 MB each, but then the app data is like 10+ MB for each. Is that stored data the synced copies of my email inbox, or my twitter feed, or FB feed? And, if so, is there a way for me to limit how much of my phone's internal storage each app gets allocated?
Topic internal-storage android
Category Android
There are some games around that use over 80+ megabytes of space. Cleaning those up first should give you some breathing space.
For limiting GMail storage, at least --
Fire up the GMail client. Click Menu > Settings > Labels From there you can select how many days worth you want synced overall, and per label. Reducing the number could help cut down on the clutter.
There really isn't much control you can do over limiting storage. Most likely the data is from the apps using local SQLite databases to store information their apps use.
You can pretty much only do these things:
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