App switching in Lollipop bust?

[airborne]

Went from 4.42 KitKat to 5.1 and Alt-tab type app switching is bust on many apps(including Tapatalk) , it'll switch between the apps but the app will startup again from scratch and not where I last left it a few seconds before, if I use the default running task list it seems to work as expected. I used the Alt-tab feature heavily in KitKat, I set it to a swipe and could switch instantly between 2 apps.

Anyone else experienced this?

 

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

I've always only known doing it via the default task manager/recent apps view so I'm not even 100% sure what you're talking about. I don't recall seeing any such feature in my old phone's options.

 

[airborne]

I've always only known doing it via the default task manager/recent apps view so I'm not even 100% sure what you're talking about. I don't recall seeing any such feature in my old phone's options.

Thanks for illuminating your ignorance for our benefit.

Alt tab task switching on Android is pretty much as it is in Windows, just switches you immediately to the last used application window.

 

[Vaughan]

Went from 4.42 KitKat to 5.1 and Alt-tab type app switching is bust on many apps(including Tapatalk) , it'll switch between the apps but the app will startup again from scratch and not where I last left it a few seconds before, if I use the default running task list it seems to work as expected. I used the Alt-tab feature heavily in KitKat, I set it to a swipe and could switch instantly between 2 apps.

Anyone else experienced this?

What phone is this on? This is important.
Your best option is to enable developer settings and check if your tasks are not being limited.
Generally lollipop should retain 1 app per core minus 1 for the launcher. So a quad core should be able to quickly swap between 3 apps.

 

[Raithlin]

Went from 4.42 KitKat to 5.1 and Alt-tab type app switching is bust on many apps(including Tapatalk) , it'll switch between the apps but the app will startup again from scratch and not where I last left it a few seconds before, if I use the default running task list it seems to work as expected. I used the Alt-tab feature heavily in KitKat, I set it to a swipe and could switch instantly between 2 apps.

Anyone else experienced this?

You talking about the last app functionality? Huawei expose it nicely (long touch on recent tasks), and still work perfectly on my Mate 7. Sounds like your phone is struggling for free RAM after the Lollipop update.

 

[TJ99]

Went from 4.42 KitKat to 5.1 and Alt-tab type app switching is bust on many apps(including Tapatalk) , it'll switch between the apps but the app will startup again from scratch and not where I last left it a few seconds before, if I use the default running task list it seems to work as expected. I used the Alt-tab feature heavily in KitKat, I set it to a swipe and could switch instantly between 2 apps.

Anyone else experienced this?

Yes, I experienced this too. It's due to "tighter" (i.e. crappier) memory management, apps get closed much easier than before. I don't know if other devices do that too, but it definitely happened on my Galaxy Note 4, probably the last Samsung phone I will ever buy.

 

[Raithlin]

Yes, I experienced this too. It's due to "tighter" (i.e. crappier) memory management, apps get closed much easier than before. I don't know if other devices do that too, but it definitely happened on my Galaxy Note 4, probably the last Samsung phone I will ever buy.

That's Samsung specific. Plenty of complaints about that on the webs.

 

[airborne]

Yip also called last app, works perfectly on my Note 3 KitKat and broken on LG G4 5.1, looks like it's lollipop that breaks it. Weird though because if you switch the apps via the task list it works, ie doesn't restart the app.

Noticed even on the gesture app I use to swipe between apps the Alt-tab option is removed when you install the app on 5.1

Anyone have Alt-tab/last app functionality fully working on Lollipop 5.1?

 

[LazyLion]

Try clearing your cache on your phone. A lollipop update runs much better with a completely new cache.
If necessary you can do a hard reset, but the cache procedure should work.

 

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Thanks for illuminating your ignorance for our benefit.

Alt tab task switching on Android is pretty much as it is in Windows, just switches you immediately to the last used application window.

Well I'd been hoping you'd tell me what I was missing out on instead of taking the easy and uninformative option and calling me an idiot.

I'm tech savvy (well more-so on PCs, but still) and investigate every possible menu I can find in a phone as soon as I get it but I've never come across something like this and I'm generally curious how on earth I could have blundered straight past it. It sounds more like a OEM-specific feature (like all the things Note devices could do before which others could not) than stock Android to me.

 

[airborne]

Try clearing your cache on your phone. A lollipop update runs much better with a completely new cache.
If necessary you can do a hard reset, but the cache procedure should work.

Do you reckon that will work?
Though it seems more like a lollipop limitation, still it'll be ridiculous if it is.

Well I'd been hoping you'd tell me what I was missing out on instead of taking the easy and uninformative option and calling me an idiot.

I'm tech savvy (well more-so on PCs, but still) and investigate every possible menu I can find in a phone as soon as I get it but I've never come across something like this and I'm generally curious how on earth I could have blundered straight past it. It sounds more like a OEM-specific feature (like all the things Note devices could do before which others could not) than stock Android to me.

See you still want to be spoon fed, tech savy but not Google savy
Maybe ask questions rather than making idiotic pronouncements, then you'll get help, guaranteed.

 

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

See you still want to be spoon fed, tech savy but not Google savy

I'm curious but not THAT curious.

 

[airborne]

I'm curious but not THAT curious.

Read the other half of that reply, that's the pertinent half

 

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Read the other half of that reply, that's the pertinent half

I don't see how expressing general curiosity and actually asking "what is this alt-tab feature and where can it be found?" are any different with regards to getting spoon-fed though? So I didn't consider it pertinent

 

[airborne]

I don't see how expressing general curiosity and actually asking "what is this alt-tab feature and where can it be found?" are any different with regards to getting spoon-fed though? So I didn't consider it pertinent

You live a blissful life, bless you.

Would really like to get Alt-tab working properly on Lollipop 5.1

 

[airborne]

Bump!
Anyone?