But you are missing the essential point -- as your laconic oracular responses so often do.
That essential point is: most readers to NOT expect that particular sense of the word 'task' to be the right choice in that context. Google has made a mess of things by redefining several key words of the English language to mean something they do NOT mean either in standard English nor in normal computer science vocabulary. And the case of 'task' is worse yet, since sometimes you do mean it in the usual sense, and sometimes you do not, with nary a hint for which case is which. 'Task' IS a synonym for 'process' in normal computing science vocabulary. On Oct 21, 11:56 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > A task, as a logical collection of activities, is unrelated to a physical > process. > > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:40 PM, CMWiii <[email protected]> wrote: > > Working on a little sub-project to do with task switching and I came > > across an oddity (for me) > > on RecentTaskInfo. > > > If I start a browser (Dolphin for example) and then exit using their > > menu exit option > > what I see is that in RecentTaskInfo the id is still positive. In > > theory it is running > > because the id is not -1. > > If I return to home then launch the browser again the id number is now > > different. > > I would expect this if the last one was actually ended. > > > DDMS shows the browser and after the menu exit press DDMS shows it > > going away. The > > presence and absence is also confirmed by looking at the > > RunningTasksInfo. > > > Any thoughts? This seems only to happen with browsers. What am I > > missing? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
