How to automatically kill apps? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Is there any way like when you hit back or home it automatically kills the current app, but if you like hold down the home button instead it keeps it open in the bg?
I hate always having apps there in my multitasking window and I don't want to have to long press back key.
I'm on aokp MS4.
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Some ROMs have a "long press back to kill" function I believe. Could always just open multitasking menu and swipe them away too.
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I know I've been doing both, but I really wish there was another option like stated above. Any apps that can do it?
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Why not use system panel. Look at the cached list. All those are frozen/static in ram, unable to use any resources.
The services list are the ones running and can use resources. But that list is so small, I have 2 items there usually.
The point is you don't have to kill apps. But you should use system panel so you can see this for yourself.

I just want a real task switcher that doesn't show latent background BS, but only real apps I am using like the winmo and iPhone ones.
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Accessing Active Applications

Is there a FAST way to switch between active applications? i came from WebOS and found switching apps the way it does extremely easy and fast, i am wondering if there's a way to do something similar in android.
Just hold the home button and you can switch between your recent opened applications.
An app called swipe pad. It can be found in the market. Allows you to open up 12 apps of your choosing to open up whenever. Sounds good?
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Of course, holding the home button you will see your recently used apps and can effectivly swotcj between them.
If you're really missing webOS then wavelauncher from the market is definitely for you. TONS of options and works just like webOS mulit-tasking. Hope you like
those are good, but i am looking for something that tells me the active application like task manager, but easier to get to. and something that makes it obvious what apps i have running. the recent app doesn't tell me what is running tho
The paid version of wave launcher can do all of that and then some. The options and settings are extensive.
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The paid version of wave launcher can do all of that and then some. The options and settings are extensive.
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I like Swipe pad cuz wave launcher gets in the way when dismissing you're notification bar
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I also really enjoy swipe pad. It's what I used before I switched to wave launcher. It's a great app, but personally I just like the feel and the way it handles better on wave launcher. And you can turn that setting off for the notifications thing in the options btw. I think it under a setting called something like "close notification on gesture area tap" or something. I don't like that feature either, so I just leave it turned off.
Yea I know u can turn it off but I like the gesture area in the top right corner
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i would get wave launcher but i dont want to start spending money on apps yet.
i'm using swipe pad with bottom swipe up (like webos) and have the task manager right above the samsung logo so i can quickly get to task manager and switch between tasks. good work around

[Q] kill task whike swiping away

Question... Is there a chance to kill tasks while swiping apps away in Recent Apps menu.
Would be much more simple to swipe app and kill process at the same time. Is it possible to implement that in any rom?
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winrris said:
Question... Is there a chance to kill tasks while swiping apps away in Recent Apps menu.
Would be much more simple to swipe app and kill process at the same time. Is it possible to implement that in any rom?
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It does not kill apps. It just hides them from the multitasking menu.
I'm sure there will be custom ROMs that give you an "X" to kill them from the menu, but this is definitely not the case in the stock ROM.
Lets got get into this again but... you do not need a task killer for Android anymore.
winrris said:
Question... Is there a chance to kill tasks while swiping apps away in Recent Apps menu.
Would be much more simple to swipe app and kill process at the same time. Is it possible to implement that in any rom?
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It's possible that when you swipe apps away in the Recent Apps switcher, the apps swiped away are marked for the first ones to be killed when Android needs to reclaim memory. I think that would make sense - there's no immediate need to kill the apps you swipe away as long as there's free memory, but when more apps are opened in the future and some background apps need to be killed, the ones that you swiped away get killed first. Still waiting on someone to test this theory though.
It will "kill" apps in the "cached background process" category.. but not in the "running apps" category in my experience.
If you open the gmail app and hit the home button and you go to settings>apps>running apps>show cached processes you'll see gmail in the list..
From there, hit the "multitasking" button and swipe gmail away, as the screen is transparent, you can see gmail disappear from the list a second after you swipe it away.
I suspect it is more requesting that the OS terminate a particular background process.. more like a "Hey, the user doesn't want you open right now. Can you go ahead and leave memory?" rather than an outright killing of the process.
I'm thinking that if users believe they are killing unwanted processes by swiping them away that they won't feel the "need" to download a task killer.. plus, swiping is a fun gesture
Andrmgic said:
It will "kill" apps in the "cached background process" category.. but not in the "running apps" category in my experience.
If you open the gmail app and hit the home button and you go to settings>apps>running apps>show cached processes you'll see gmail in the list..
From there, hit the "multitasking" button and swipe gmail away, as the screen is transparent, you can see gmail disappear from the list a second after you swipe it away.
I suspect it is more requesting that the OS terminate a particular background process.. more like a "Hey, the user doesn't want you open right now. Can you go ahead and leave memory?" rather than an outright killing of the process.
I'm thinking that if users believe they are killing unwanted processes by swiping them away that they won't feel the "need" to download a task killer.. plus, swiping is a fun gesture
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Haha, oh wow, so it actually does kill apps. Can't believe everyone who's been discussing this feature has been wrong so far. Man, what are the odds that everyone has so far only tried to swipe away foreground, visible, and service processes, and you are the first one to try to swipe away background processes.

Close apps from ICS task switcher?

Does anyone know of any mods to allow the force closing of apps from the ICS task switcher by swiping to the side? This would be rather useful - certainly more useful than the current behavior of just hiding the running app in the switcher.
Maybe we could have swiping one way keeps the current behaviour and swiping the other way closes the app?
Thanks!
T
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I was just wondering this a few days ago, I thought that swiping them closed the app but obviously not. I would love this feature too!
If I start the XDA app and open a forum I can switch back to that screen through the task switcher or by clicking the app icon. But when I close XDA through the task switcher it restarts when I click the app icon (showing splash screen).
To me it looks like the XDA app gets termintated when I close it in the task switcher.
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If I start the XDA app and open a forum I can switch back to that screen through the task switcher or by clicking the app icon. But when I close XDA through the task switcher it restarts when I click the app icon (showing splash screen).
To me it looks like the XDA app gets termintated when I close it in the task switcher.
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+ 1 on this. I'm pretty sure it ends the task when you swipe it away
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no it doesn't...
u can still see the process running...
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I'm pretty sure apps are unaffected by the switcher - there are just some apps that close automatically when they are "minimized".
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I think apps are affected in some way by the switcher. Try to open the market, go to my apps, press the home button and launch the market again : it's still on the my apps screen.
Now press the home button, "close" the market by swiping from the task switcher, and reopen it : it starts on the main screen, and not on the my apps screen.
From the app switcher: long press an app -> app info - force stop ... and is out of memory and closed for good.
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From the app switcher: long press an app -> app info - force stop ... and is out of memory and closed for good.
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Yeah - I guess what I'd like is for the swipe to give that behavior every time. It doesn't seem to consistently do that.
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Here's my test using SystemPanel. You can follow along to verify.
Open Market -> Press Home -> Open SystemPanel
Result: Market is in "Active Applications" category
Press Home -> Open Market -> Press Back so I'm at Home Screen -> Open SystemPanel
Result: Market is in "Inactive (Cached) Applications" category
Press Home -> Open Market -> Press Home -> Swipe Market away in Task Switcher -> Open SystemPanel
Result: Market is not found in neither "Active Applications" nor "Inactive (Cached) Applications" categories
So my conclusion: Swiping apps away in Task Switcher has stronger effect than pressing back all the way until you're at home screen. It will kill the app/process (but the process may restart itself)
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Here's my test using SystemPanel. You can follow along to verify.
Open Market -> Press Home -> Open SystemPanel
Result: Market is in "Active Applications" category
Press Home -> Open Market -> Press Back so I'm at Home Screen -> Open SystemPanel
Result: Market is in "Inactive (Cached) Applications" category
Press Home -> Open Market -> Press Home -> Swipe Market away in Task Switcher -> Open SystemPanel
Result: Market is not found in neither "Active Applications" nor "Inactive (Cached) Applications" categories
So my conclusion: Swiping apps away in Task Switcher has stronger effect than pressing back all the way until you're at home screen. It will kill the app/process (but the process may restart itself)
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Same observation here. It most definitely closes apps.
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Android already has a rather aggressive task manager that closes apps when necessary. Apps running in the background helps Android run more efficiently instead of force closing everything all of the time.
Google left this feature out intentionally for a reason.
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Google left this feature out intentionally for a reason.
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yeah, but you must admit, it does seem like a very good idea... would be good to minimize the amount of processes running and thus have less drain on the battery.
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Tasks in memory shouldn't perform any functions, and they shouldn't drain the battery at all. Having empty memory takes the same amount of power as having full memory, except full memory caches your frequently used apps so they open quickly.
Processes, on the other hand, don't end when you press back all the way. They are what apps use to perform scheduled tasks in the background. Things like push notifications.
You shouldn't ever need to end a process. If you have an app which is wasting your battery with its background process, uninstall the app and stop using it.
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yeah, but you must admit, it does seem like a very good idea... would be good to minimize the amount of processes running and thus have less drain on the battery.
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On the contrary, constantly keeping RAM free of apps is counterproductive to battery efficiency. Apps are saved in RAM in order to be called back up quickly in the future when they are "closed", saving the CPU usage of completely reopening apps every time you go to use them again. When RAM is getting full, the least used apps are terminated. Apps saved to RAM don't drain battery, they sit there on pause. The only battery drainers are background services and syncs. RAM is meant to be used, not kept empty at all times for no reason. It is the placeholder for programs to be called to the CPU, nothing is really run from RAM.
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If you think the app is consuming CPU in the background when you don't intend it to, uninstall it and report to the developer. This is a flaw in the app design.
Force Close does not help in this case as let's say if the app has a service, the service will be killed and restarted immediately. And the app state will reset just the same as swiping.
jd1001 said:
I was just wondering this a few days ago, I thought that swiping them closed the app but obviously not. I would love this feature too!
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A Google Developer answered this on Google+, essentially, swiping out the app in App Switcher is the same as hitting the back button to exit.
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A Google Developer answered this on Google+, essentially, swiping out the app in App Switcher is the same as hitting the back button to exit.
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I actually thought Matias Duarte himself agreed that it does in fact close the app.
Android OS Using > 50% of my battery
I have the phone in Airplane mode with no wifi overnight and I am losing 30% battery. I notice that OS is using more than 50% battery. How can I lower that? I noticed Google Maps and the Weather Channel were running since I bought the phone, even though I "close" most task by swiping away.
Swiping does close, you can see the app terminate in the logcat
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close apps

Hi there.
Is it possible to close apps, so they dont show up when i hit multitask button?
So my question is 1, can i close apps completly? And 2, can I remove them from multitasking?
I am using jelly bean
/ Christian
Christianfrank said:
Hi there.
Is it possible to close apps, so they dont show up when i hit multitask button?
So my question is 1, can i close apps completly? And 2, can I remove them from multitasking?
I am using jelly bean
/ Christian
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Yes. Open multitask view and swipe them away to remove them from the list. This will also close them.
Furthermore, some custom roms have an option that will allow you close an app by long pressing the back softkey.
Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps. There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment. They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps. There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment. They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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But the swipe does close apps sometimes .
Just now I hit the home key and swiped away XDA. When I opened it again, I was the first screen again.
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Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps.
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Not only. Try it yourself: open an app, tap home, re-open app. It will show the state it was in when you left it.
Now try this: open an app, tap home, open recent list, swipe it away, re-open app. It will start from scratch.
There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment.
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Of course there is. But hardly relevant, because on Android apps don't run on the kernel natively.
They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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That's true. There might be other reasons than performance related to remove apps from the recent list though.
Swipe away the app in the recent list, it closes the app. It closes activities but not services.

[Q] Multitasking list

I'm talking about Android multitasking -- the one you get when you long-press the Home button. NOT multi-window (which is for the Note II when you long-press the Back button).
How many apps can appear in the multitasking list? Mine seems to peak at 19 or 20. Also, how come some apps fail to appear in the multitasking list? Like when I view an email from a notification, of course the GMail app opens. Then I get to the homescreen, and if I decide to view the multitasking list, GMail isn't there. Could someone point me to a detailed explanation of the mechanics of the multitasking list on Android?
Thanks a bunch.
Ive found that if an app doesmt show up i just close multitasking window and reopen it and it is usually there. Only happens on my note 2 lol.
As for the max i have no idea. I only have 16 at the moment. But i rarely use the list.
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