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That ‘Task Killer’ App You’re Still Using Will Be Useless Starting With Android 14

Tim March 8, 2023 4

In the early days of Android, task killer apps were all the rage. Was your phone being a slow and janky piece of crap? That's an easy fix, just kill all of the ongoing tasks and it should speed right up, with the task killer designed to free up memory and kill...

How to: Quickly Kill Off or Switch to Recently Used Apps [Beginners’ Guide]

Kellen February 27, 2013 18

When the Android team first unveiled Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), one of the flagship features shown off was a new way to quickly switch between recently used apps or remove those same apps from running. On stock Android devices, or devices that use on-...

Task Killers Put to the Test, Do They Actually Extend Battery Life? As Expected, They Most Certainly Do Not

Kellen November 18, 2011 109

We have written a number of times about the idea that task killers on Android do not help battery, no matter what that carrier rep who sold you your new phone has told you. In general, most of us look at Android as a multi-tasking platform that likes to have...

Amazon Offers Up Watchdog Task Manager for FREE, Different Than a Task Killer?

Tim June 16, 2011 59

Task Killers again? Sort of. At the beginning of this month, Amazon offered up a task killer for free and we tried to do our best to educate some of our newer readers who may not have known, that these apps are basically useless now that phones are up to...

Revisiting Android Task Killers and Why You Still Don’t Need One…

Kellen June 2, 2011 230

We almost hate to approach the topic of Task Killers on Android after all this time, but with so many new faces here at Droid Life and in Android in general, it's something that needs to be done. In fact, after seeing the Amazon app of the day and reading...