[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-21 Thread Mek Rama
Yes, Fragments helps a lot. I did multi tasking using activities, Asyctask, hidden layouts in a Relative lout,etc. But Fragments is the best solution, I believe.Not sure about compatible jars of fragments that works in lower versions, but heard that it works equally good. I think every

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-17 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Spiral123 cumis...@gmail.com wrote: sblantipodi is either a troll, a terminal whiner or both. consider some of his finest threads from the last 12 months or so: Google lost vs Oracle. Android isn't able to manage a PDF, this is bad. Image CoverFlow not

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread sblantipodi
I used the fart apps terms just to explain simple apps. On May 16, 2:46 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: Four different *fart *apps? Are you trying to play the quartet from the third act of Rigoletto? -- K 2012/5/16 sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org As title.

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Johan Appelgren
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.

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread sblantipodi
don't try to justify a broken system, please. Take a fresh new galaxy nexus, install on it three small apps, choose you the apps and start them, now open two tabs on your browser, choose you the site, now come back at the first apps opened, you will see that the activity has been restarted, now

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:43 PM, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: don't try to justify a broken system, please. Take a fresh new galaxy nexus, install on it three small apps, choose you the apps and start them, now open two tabs on your browser, choose you the site, now come

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread sblantipodi
As the graph I posted explain the app is not restarted, but the latest activity is. If the activity is restarted, user needs to reinput the input it submitted, variables needs to be re-populated, etc. from your talking it seems that in your mind the app needs to store every user's move in

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:01 PM, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: As the graph I posted explain the app is not restarted, but the latest activity is. If the activity is restarted, user needs to reinput the input it submitted, variables needs to be re-populated, etc. Well,

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Kiran Rao
Really? User needs to reinput everything? Let me ask you: have *you* ever programmed an Android app? On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:31:35 UTC+5:30, sblantipodi wrote: As the graph I posted explain the app is not restarted, but the latest activity is. If the activity is restarted, user needs

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Streets Of Boston
from your talking it seems that in your mind the app needs to store every user's move in database and restore it in every onCreate(), hey, have you every programmed an android app? If you write an app that allows the user to change an Activity's data and state (that is not backed by input

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread sblantipodi
Open the browser, fill in some blank spaces, now multitask, reopen the browser, the page is completely reloaded, do you think that the developers who wrote the android browser don't know how to implement an activity? :D On May 16, 4:16 pm, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed,

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread sblantipodi
To Boston, we should suggest to android developers to use fragments and onSavedInstanceState... On May 16, 4:43 pm, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: Open the browser, fill in some blank spaces, now multitask, reopen the browser, the page is completely reloaded, do you think

[android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Johan Appelgren
Could you give a more specific example? Because if I switch between for example Twitter, Google+, Zite and the Chrome beta nothing is restarted at all. And even if they do it isn't an issue since they continue where they left off anyways. On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:43:34 PM UTC+2,

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Justin Anderson
I think sblantipodi is just looking for an argument... He is obviously biased against Android and has never done any Android development at all. Besides, this forum is for asking questions about developing Android apps with the SDK... So, sblantipodi, what is your question regarding SDK app

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS don't give you a real multitasking.

2012-05-16 Thread Spiral123
sblantipodi is either a troll, a terminal whiner or both. consider some of his finest threads from the last 12 months or so: - Google lost vs Oracle. - Android isn't able to manage a PDF, this is bad. - Image CoverFlow not working fine with Android 4.0 - Hardware accleration slow