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> (3) The task switching is just as bad as the author says. I was puzzling over this because he says there is no way to task switch from the keyboard and yet:

by zmmmmm 15y ago

> (3) The task switching is just as bad as the author says. I was puzzling over this because he says there is no way to task switch from the keyboard and yet: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/08/12/tip-want-the-app-switcher-button-on-asus-transformers-keyboard-dock-just-alttab-instead/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/08/12/tip-want-the-app-swi... From what I understand, Alt-Tab task switching was delivered in the 3.2 update - can you clarify whether that's true or not? Fwiw, I strongly suspect that the task-switching experience varies enormously depending on what you switch between. Firefox is probably a worst-possible-case because it'll use loads of memory and force Android to kill all other apps.

CPlatypus 15y ago
"From what I understand, Alt-Tab task switching was delivered in the 3.2 update" Yes, it's there - except in Firefox, of course, which does something to break it. It's nice, but doesn't address the other problems of apps behaving inconsistently when resumed or disappearing from the task list (it's the same list between the button and alt-tab). "Firefox is probably a worst-possible-case" Indeed. No argument there. OTOH, practically all of the problems attributable to Firefox also occur with other browsers - I've tried five - as well.
jsnell 15y ago
That's a hack that doesn't work very consistently. For example in most terminal emulators or the Google Docs app Alt-Tab does nothing. In the Browser the first press of Alt-Tab will just put the focus on the url bar, and you need to press a second time to get the task switcher. An inconsistent mechanism is even less useful than a cumbersome one. However, it also looks as if some update has also added the capacity to navigate the recent apps menu with the keyboard, which is nice. It still needs to be triggered from the touch screen, but it's getting there.

by zmmmmm 15y ago

CPlatypus 15y ago

"From what I understand, Alt-Tab task switching was delivered in the 3.2 update" Yes, it's there - except in Firefox, of course, which does something to break it. It's nice, but doesn't address the other problems of apps behaving inconsistently when resumed or disappearing from the task list (it's the same list between the button and alt-tab). "Firefox is probably a worst-possible-case" Indeed. No argument there. OTOH, practically all of the problems attributable to Firefox also occur with other browsers - I've tried five - as well.

jsnell 15y ago

That's a hack that doesn't work very consistently. For example in most terminal emulators or the Google Docs app Alt-Tab does nothing. In the Browser the first press of Alt-Tab will just put the focus on the url bar, and you need to press a second time to get the task switcher. An inconsistent mechanism is even less useful than a cumbersome one. However, it also looks as if some update has also added the capacity to navigate the recent apps menu with the keyboard, which is nice. It still needs to be triggered from the touch screen, but it's getting there.