Thread: Multitasking on Android
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2016-06-28 , 00:53
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
If the app isn't doing anything then it saves state and releases resources saving your battery. It restores state back to where you left it when you resume it.
This is not true. If a process is idling in memory, it will not consume any additional power unless it is swapped out. Saving and restoring state requires copying data from RAM to non-volatile storage and back again. This action is similar to swapping and does consume extra power. When Android restarts an app from scratch and restores its state, it's quite likely that it uses more power due to extra instruction cycles and copy operations than swapping normally would.

Originally Posted by sicelo View Post
Finally, it's quite apparent that some of us, myself included, want the same type of multitasking as on a desktop, even though there might be a battery/power penalty to pay.
This is not entirely true either:

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/0...ic-vs-dynamic/
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