Android apps can work in the background in sever ways, but sometimes too much choice can be a bad thing. Android has a range of APIs and components for scheduling background work, and the “correct” ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

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We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. In the early days of Android, task killer apps were all the rage. Was your phone being a slow and janky piece ...

Chrome OS fans will soon be receiving a feature that many have been wanting since support for Android apps rolled out. The new feature is Android Parallel Tasks, and it is tipped for release in Chrome ...

What really happens when you close background apps on Android.

Android’s open nature leads to some disparity with how apps and features can work across devices from different smartphone makers. Over the last couple of years, background app performance has been a ...

For years, my Android home screen has been a rotating graveyard of task management apps. I have jumped from minimalist to feature-heavy, from proprietary to open source, always convinced that the next ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Android's long had problems managing apps running in the background. While Google offers guidelines about how devices running ...

Broadly speaking, a runnable app (meaning one that has been loaded into memory and can be executed) can be in one of two states on an Android device: it is either a foreground app, which is currently ...