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Will Android offer a true multitasking environment?
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Posted by: Razor1973

From reading on it for a while, installing the SDK and playing with the emulator, I'm thinking not and this is, so far, the only disappointment I have found about this platform. This looks more like the iPhone interface, where some applications (think media player) are designed to run as services and stay running in the background, but, unless that's the case and the application is implemented this way, the minute the application looses focus (you go to the home screen, for example), it closes.

Am I wrong? If not, will there be a task manager type of application? I am yet to find one on the emulator.

Posted by: scheng924

multi-threading, multi-processing and multi-tasking is and will be part of android..
it's not really possible to simulate in the emulator but it's in the code itself

i assume when phones and apps come out.. you will get to play around with it.. so don't worry just wait till it arrives.. it's a good start for the industry to have open source

Posted by: Razor1973

What's your source?

Posted by: FL1134

http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/1...ltitasking.html
http://www.ryanblock.com/2007/11/an...-apps-whatever/

Doesn't seem native to me. If you want native multitasking look at GPL openmoko or trolltech's QT software stacks. You can run GTK, QT, e17, and javafx currently with FIC 1973. Things you can do outside a java sandbox.

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Originally Posted by scheng924

...it's a good start for the industry to have open source

... if it is actually open source. The kernel and webkit is all that has been released.

Posted by: Razor1973

I must admit I'm a bit disappointed, which I rarely can say about a Google product. Then again, Google is Google, so I smell an unexpected change or perfectly perfect workaround in the future. They always find a way to offer a solution that far surpasses everybody's expectations.

Posted by: FL1134

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Originally Posted by Razor1973

I must admit I'm a bit disappointed, which I rarely can say about a Google product. Then again, Google is Google, so I smell an unexpected change or perfectly perfect workaround in the future. They always find a way to offer a solution that far surpasses everybody's expectations.

What work around? It is already possible with embedded linux but google chose to only be an enabler of their services. It will take a manufacturer to release a handset with GPL linux drivers to change that. Openmoko and Qtopia on the FIC neo1973 GSM handset turns the device into a 500Mhz linux box, with endless possibilities. Android on a GSM handset gives you sandboxed java.