MultiTasking for Apps

[ink718]

Is there a program for the Android OS to have more than one application open? At times when I am browsing the internet and then get a text, I press the home screen to get to my texts but then when I want to return to the browser, it opens up but what I was viewing before is gone and goes to the default startup page. And same goes for other apps that I open up. Is there a way to fix this in Android? Want a option like they have in WM with the "X" button task manager.

Basically I want ANY APP to remain as is i left it before i went to go open up another app. And remain there so that when I press and hold the home screen button, I select the app i want to go to and remains the way i left it, without it closing or anything.

[TREmp77]

With the default browser or any browser if you press the home button it should just take you to the EVO screen, then when you go back to the browser after say checking a text it should be the same page you were on when you presses the home button.

Thats how it is on my phone.

[ink718]

Well not just browser but any app. I want it to remain as is i left it before i went to go open up another app.

[carlitos]

yea what TREMP77 said. it shold take u to the same page u were on.. when ur done txtng try n press the home bottn hld it then ull see ur previous app. then just click on the browser n see if goes to the default page or the one u were using it

[cruise350]

Android is like the iphone, no multitask. You need to go back to wm if you want multi tasking.

[carlitos]

Originally Posted by cruise350

android is like the iphone, no multitask. You need to go back to wm if you want multi tasking.

what r u talking about do u own an evo? Cuz i got one n it has multi tasking written all over the evo r u serious?

[blackte4]

Sounds like someone with an LG....... Buy a EVO first before commenting on it.... Thanks.... CLosed this please....

[bradart]

Originally Posted by cruise350

Android is like the iphone, no multitask. You need to go back to wm if you want multi tasking.

Wow. You people are coming out of the woodwork tonight. Is it a full moon?

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[TheBundo]

Well, I've had an Evo since 5/28, and I have to agree that it does NOT multi-task as well as WM. If I hit the home button while an internet page is loading, it does NOT finish loading in the background. When I return to Internet, it is back on the page I was leaving. It does some multi-tasking, but not nearly as much or as well as WM. I see it everyday in various ways.

Here is another example. Start the download of a large attachment you get (or send to yourself as a test). While it is downloading, navigate away. Then go back to email. It will have stopped downloading, and the download arrow will be there again without the spinning clock. This can be a real pain if you are downloading a 10MB file. You have to leave it on that screen, AND manipulate the volume button or touch the screen in a blank area or do something else that won't take you away from that screen, to keep it from falling asleep, or you have to START ALL OVER.

So to those of you naysayers to the poster who said it doesn't multi-task all that well, I naysay back at you, because it's the truth. Test my examples out for yourself. WM didn't behave that way.

[bradart]

Originally Posted by TheBundo

Well, I've had an Evo since 5/28, and I have to agree that it does NOT multi-task as well as WM. If I hit the home button while an internet page is loading, it does NOT finish loading in the background. When I return to Internet, it is back on the page I was leaving. It does some multi-tasking, but not nearly as much or as well as WM. I see it everyday in various ways.

Here is another example. Start the download of a large attachment you get (or send to yourself as a test). While it is downloading, navigate away. Then go back to email. It will have stopped downloading, and the download arrow will be there again without the spinning clock. This can be a real pain if you are downloading a 10MB file. You have to leave it on that screen, AND manipulate the volume button or touch the screen in a blank area or do something else that won't take you away from that screen, to keep it from falling asleep, or you have to START ALL OVER.

So to those of you naysayers to the poster who said it doesn't multi-task all that well, I naysay back at you, because it's the truth. Test my examples out for yourself. WM didn't behave that way.

Well, not to be argumentative, but android does multitask flawlessly and, might i add, WWAAAYYYYY more efficiently than WM. You are using an incorrect definition of multitasking. Android assigns cpu priority based on parameters built into the app itself, whether or not your using it, and what other apps are running. Gmail was designed to be a background process that you could occasionally check. Android quite intentionally caches the state of gmail(stops active data connection and remembers where you were in the list or what email you had open) to make whatever app you are switching to run at its best capacity.

The same goes for the browser. I cannot think of a single time i have taken the browser out of focus while i was waiting for a page to load. Android figures "hell, this guy isn't looking at the browser anymore. I'll save battery power and cpu strength. I'll remember where the guy WAS and stop using the data connection so he can get the most use out of the app he'd evidently prefer to be using right now", whereas Windows Mobile is like "HERPP DERP Everything on full blast all the time! My processor can handle ALL OF Y-crash"

Download visual task switcher from the market. These apps are still running, but in a cpu and battery-saving cached state because you aren't using them. This is the entire reason android runs more smoothly than WM and, by extension, why Android is superior in every way.

EDIT: addendum: The reason you think WM multitasks better is because windows mobile doesn't know how to schedule a cpu, which is why windows mobile needs a task manager to be even halfway usable.