> "There is no such thing as "closing the application" or "auto exiting > the app" in the android application model."
But there should be and there is on cyanogenmod (hold back to kill) which I am glad for if an app ever freezes or misbehaves or I simply don't want the browser left open whilst I do certain things especially now Mozilla have been pressured into making the quit button not a proper quit. Ignoring all that, have you ever heard of a fix being to reboot! Having said that the killed app is still annoyingly polluting the open apps list (with a black front, giving some assurance that you have achieved what you wanted for firefox). Don't get me wrong I like the home button, auto kill and crash and carry on functionality but every app should have a proper quit saving memory immediately and a clear indication of I want you to do nothing more now until I tell you otherwise (ignoring background services which should be seperate entities). Also it should be the device owners atleast FINAL opt-in decision and not the app makers if an app should start on boot. You can say all the theory you like but it is fact that a kill all open apps button does help speed devices up at the very least for a short time. Of course it could send it into a slowing frenzy of restarts but I have never observed that. No user custom launchers aka app centricity is the other really annoying "FEATURE" which forgets the power and history of UNIX just like Androids overuse of IPC/DBUS which has resulted in major security flaws that could have been avoided. (similar to Windows overuse of the even worse RPC). Still a far cry better than Apple with it's forcefully out of date Webkit. I'd only touch an apple device of my own with a cattle prod! -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
