You probably have other apps installed with running services and manifest registered broadcast receivers receiving broadcasts pushing the fart apps out. As long as there is some memory free for non-service apps their processes are cached and reused just fine.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/processes-and-threads.html#Lifecycle If your app needs to do things in the background you need to do that work in a service, if it is really important work in a foreground service even. On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:39:07 PM UTC+2, sblantipodi wrote: > > As title. > After using more than one ICS device I'm convinced that the > multitasking offered by ICS is not a real multitasking. > > I well know this graph: > http://developer.android.com/images/activity_lifecycle.png > > This is good, but how this graph is implemented is horrible. > On a galaxy nexus with 1GB of RAM, you can't open four different fart > apps that the first one opened is restarted. > > I can multitask many more apps on my older symbian with 128MB of RAM > than on my galaxy nexus with 1GB of RAM. > > The system that manage memory in ICS is broken, I hope that google > will fix this problem soon. -- 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
