• Markaos
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    3 months ago

    apps that are programmed by a 13 year old that wants to scam people.

    That’s a weird way to spell “project manager who doesn’t let developers waste time making efficient apps when they could just add more marketable features”. The competition won’t hesitate, and users will always flock to apps with more features and nicer UI over optimizations.

    People need to learn how to close apps.

    If you have enough RAM, there’s no reason to - it’s not like they are actually running and consuming CPU cycles. If you don’t have enough RAM, you also don’t need to - Android will do it for you. My phone with 3 GB of RAM could barely handle maps and a browser at once, so there were plenty of times when the map app restarted and recentered on my current position when I came back from checking the website of whatever company I looked at.

    The recent apps screen is really just a history of open apps, with some of them maybe still in memory, and with some opaque mechanism for automatically removing old entries. You can reboot your phone and the apps will still be there with a screenshot of their last state. Doesn’t mean they will get back to that state when you switch to them.