WP7S Will Have Multitasking

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I just read a article about WP7S regarding multitasking. This was posted by L3v5y. For those who don't know L3v5y, he is a well known dev/cook/moderator on XDA-Dev's and a Editor for WMPoweruser

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I’m going to start this off with the point that as WP7 is built of CE7, which is an upgrade to CE6 (WM6.5 is built of CE5.2) of course the OS supports multitasking! There aren’t major smartphones that don’t support it at an OS level, because that would cause things like not being able to receive a phone call when not in the phone application.

From what delving I’ve done in the SDK (and what I’ve been told by a few) Microsoft will allow third party developers access to multitasking, but only if the developer can give a good reason. This may seem like Microsoft trying to control your life, but it’s really Microsoft wanting the experience to be good!

What point is there to having a game rendering in the background, when if you hibernate it and resume you’re game will still be in the same state? All that will do is cause the OS to slow down with no benefit. As a different example, a web browser would be useful to have downloading content in the background as it would let you do other things when loading web pages, but there’s not point in it constantly refreshing what it’s drawing to the screen as you will not see it.

The packages that applications are stored in (think cab file, but the code is executed from within it’s package, rather than copying the contents of the package on to the device and then running it there) contain a manifest stating what permissions the package has, like multitasking, web access etc, so it’s harder for idiots to install malware, but there should be the option to turn that off, much like you can turn off the unsigned cab warning in WM6.5. This is, I believe, the “developer” mode.

I hope that little rant clears up some of the multitasking, but if you have any questions, do let us know below!

Here's the link: http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=14400

Hmmm,

That makes sense. Till MS messes up their multitasking approval process.

For apps like Pandora, there definitely is a need for multitasking, and I agree with game apps suspended to conserve up on battery life and OS usability.

Normal joe isnt too good with the concept of killing apps!

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Originally Posted by krjcook

I just read a article about WP7S regarding multitasking. This was posted by L3v5y. For those who don't know L3v5y, he is a well known dev/cook/moderator on XDA-Dev's and a Editor for WMPoweruser

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Here's the link: http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=14400

Also in video form HERE Fast foward to about 6:25 to here the MS thoughts on Multitasking

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Let's hope Microsoft doesn't get too overkill with application approval process.
Apparently, college (DreamSpark) students will have the developer fees already paid for them, but I'm not sure about each individual application.

And yes, the system does support multitasking, so I guess it is just disabled if not needed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQwzgNVVlc

I don't see how that's going to stop users from running several multitasking programs Is MS just trying to reduce the likelihood of that happening ?

I wonder if they'd let me make an app that could always run in the background that I could use for transferring text data from one application to another. I'm having trouble thinking of a name for it though...

Joking aside, this is good news, I can live with having a rationale for multitasking.

Originally Posted by style1

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Also in video form HERE Fast foward to about 6:25 to here the MS thoughts on Multitasking

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I already watched that, Engadget is in my RSS feeds. Apparently the platform supports multitasking, but not in the traditional sense. He's basically saying that it's not a Desktop enviroment, the multitasking you need on a mobile platform isn't as deep.

• It will load web pages in the background while in another app.
• Media application will continue to play in the background
• No need to keep resource hogging apps running, will pause when not using. (Games, etc.)
• Video won't play in the background, but what's the point of doing that anyway?
• Dev's that want their app to run in the background must be have their app approved by MS.

Nice write up by l3v5y,

The only apps that really need to run in the background are music apps, web browsers maybe

Originally Posted by gom99

I wonder if they'd let me make an app that could always run in the background that I could use for transferring text data from one application to another. I'm having trouble thinking of a name for it though...

Joking aside, this is good news, I can live with having a rationale for multitasking.

MS is heavily backing on Push Notifications for those kind of apps. There paused, but will continue to notify you, not to sure how that works.

Originally Posted by krjcook

MS is heavily backing on Push Notifications for those kind of apps. There paused, but will continue to notify you, not to sure how that works.

I was just joking, the name for the app would be clipboard .