I understand that there are all kinds of Google services running all the time, what I didn’t understand is why I just noticed that it showed up under processes in AMS as shown in the picture I sent. As I mentioned, AMS now runs about double the CPU usage (AMS plus Google). I haven’t seen any other apps show similar behavior by looking into the running list of apps which is why I questioned it. In other words, no other apps show Google Play as a secondary process, but I assume that this is because they are not using Analytics like Avast does.

I guess the bottom line is that you’ve seen the pic of the Google process I was describing, and if you’re telling me that it looks fine to you and that AMS doubling of CPU usage from about 10 to now 20 MB is normal, then you’ve answered my question.

Thanks for the clarification and assistance. I’ve recommended AMS to several people and a couple of them had the same question so I thought it was worthwhile looking into.