'Unfortunate' may be too strong a word. However, as has already been pointed out, it is a little disorienting, since most of us are used to 'exit' really being 'exit'.
Also, despite what Google has said in the past, there really are times when the user really does want to just STOP the app, even dump it from memory. Especially when there are so many badly written apps, apps that keep trying to connect to the net when the phone is out of coverage, or keep on moving bits from one side to the other for no apparent reason even while neither visible nor foreground, draining the battery and heating up the phone... I also can't help but wonder if the apps would not be this poorly written if the developers had also had this ability to stop and dump the app. After all, it has been a basic modus operandi since long before even we old timers started programming: when things get really funky, you reset everything to a "last known good" state. On Android, this is now unreasonably difficult to do; you have to uninstall the app and relaunch the emulator. And for what? For a 'benefit' few users really liked even in Symbian and other smartphones that had a similar lifecycle feature for years before Android? On Oct 23, 10:33 pm, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is that an *un*fortunate feature? > > If your app is still running, it allows for a quicker startup next > time. > > Even if cold or warm startup times are not much different from each > other, what is unfortunate by having your process still running? The > Android OS will kill it when it needs resources. > > On Oct 24, 12:20 am, Frank Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is a common question and is probably due to confusion of what "app" > > really means. I think newbie Android developer's tend to think that an > > Android app is very much similar to a desktop application. If you can > > explain how they're different, you've made an important step out of > > newbiehood. > > > I suppose you mean that there's a process with your app's name that is still > > running after you press back. That is an unfortunate "feature" in the > > Android OS. As I recall, some Android Engineer said they're thinking of > > doing that a different way in a future release. > > -- 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
