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Actually, he's completely wrong about multitasking on Android, and BTW, your father-in-law is (IMHO) wasting his time with "Advanced Task Killer". That app is i
by theBobMcCormick 17y ago
Actually, he's completely wrong about multitasking on Android, and BTW, your father-in-law is (IMHO) wasting his time with "Advanced Task Killer". That app is in general a waste of time. Refer to my post elsewhere is this thread for more detail, but the short version is that apps don't need to be specifically killed on Android. Apps do not normally run in the background at all, they are stopped as soon as they're not user visible anymore. Apps that do wish to do things in the background, like play music, can register a service process, which is kind of like a background worker thread. The service process is the only thing that actually runs in the background.
- megaduck 17y agoI'm happy to be corrected on this particular point. From appearances, it looked like they'd taken the Windows Mobile model and made it even worse. Good to hear that it's actually sensible. Apologies for spreading bad info.
- theBobMcCormick 17y agoNo need to apologize. We're all friends here right? Besides, the odds are good you'll get to return the "favor" one of these days. :-) BTW... The mis-information about how Android background apps work is pretty widespread, so I wouldn't feel bad about having it incorrect. Heck, that's what I believed the situation was until I got an Android phone. :-)
- akgerber 17y agoHere is a flowchart! Everybody loves flowcharts! http://developer.android.com/images/activity_lifecycle.png http://developer.android.com/images/activity_lifecycle.png