Multitask like pre

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Hi everyone,

A friend of mine just got a Palm pre plus. Nice phone, not bad at all. I still prefer my Nexus but one tool really did caught my eye on the Palm.

The multitasking ability is wonderfull on the Pre. the ability to view small windows of every tasks you are running, moving left of right to switch and up to close/kill an app is just plain awesome.

I know jailbroken Iphone can download a similar app through cydia. So if the Iphone can do it, Why can't I find anything alike for Android?

That would be a great app that for sure many would download as it is just nice looking.

thanks a lot for reading.

Aeonys

Originally Posted by Aeonys

Hi everyone,

A friend of mine just got a Palm pre plus. Nice phone, not bad at all. I still prefer my Nexus but one tool really did caught my eye on the Palm.

The multitasking ability is wonderfull on the Pre. the ability to view small windows of every tasks you are running, moving left of right to switch and up to close/kill an app is just plain awesome.

I know jailbroken Iphone can download a similar app through cydia. So if the Iphone can do it, Why can't I find anything alike for Android?

That would be a great app that for sure many would download as it is just nice looking.

thanks a lot for reading.

Aeonys

I would love love love this.

That would be way cool Been wanting something like that for a while now

You mean a task switcher

And yes, would be a nice feature

Originally Posted by Aeonys

Hi everyone,

A friend of mine just got a Palm pre plus. Nice phone, not bad at all. I still prefer my Nexus but one tool really did caught my eye on the Palm.

The multitasking ability is wonderfull on the Pre. the ability to view small windows of every tasks you are running, moving left of right to switch and up to close/kill an app is just plain awesome.

I know jailbroken Iphone can download a similar app through cydia. So if the Iphone can do it, Why can't I find anything alike for Android?

That would be a great app that for sure many would download as it is just nice looking.

thanks a lot for reading.

Aeonys

You can simply long press the home button. It's not all your running tasks, just your six most recently executed applications. It's not nearly as cool of an interface as the Palm Pre may have, but it effectively does the same thing. For killing processes I recommend Advanced Task Manager.

I'm sure we'll have a similar interface on stock Android in future releases. 2.5 perhaps?

@mhaedo:

Thanks for the tip! I tried it and it aint bad.
I already had Commantalb and ES task manager.
Both of them and this trick do partly what I ask (and other too.)

Check out the proswitcher on youtube. I'm sure it ain't too hard to have an app running in the back that shows up like commantab show you the windows let you kill them with a vertical slide, etc.

If I wait for this to happen on android 3.1 I may as well buy an Iphone (oh dear no way!)...

Proswitcher looks fantastic.

Now that we have a phone with some decent power, I'd love to see a graphical task switching app with thumbnails and gestures like this!

Originally Posted by Aeonys

@mhaedo:

Thanks for the tip! I tried it and it aint bad.
I already had Commantalb and ES task manager.
Both of them and this trick do partly what I ask (and other too.)

Check out the proswitcher on youtube. I'm sure it ain't too hard to have an app running in the back that shows up like commantab show you the windows let you kill them with a vertical slide, etc.

If I wait for this to happen on android 3.1 I may as well buy an Iphone (oh dear no way!)...

Having used the two multitasking solutions available on cydia (multifl0w and kirkae) I can report that they are buggy at best. In theory it works well but in practice, I often had apps crash when backgrounded (pandora was a fine example of this). The phone was not meant for it and could barely support it.

Using backgrounder alone with pandora worked well most of the time but even then pandora would close.

Personally, I have no real compelling interest in a pre-esque multitasking ability on the n1 but if someone came out with one, I would definitely try it out for no other reason than "why not".

coming from a 3gs and having used mquickdo and kirikae, I also would like to see how the n1 would handle task switching.

yep, backgrounding + task switching via card view on the iphone (specially through kirikae) was nice to have and would like to see how a similar solution would operate on the n1 - which supports unfettered multitasking out of the box.

aside from task switching, i would really like to have a nice way to invoke favorite, instead of recently used apps.