Recently Android App

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Google changed a lot of things with Lollipop. Some great, like smooth animations, some not so great, like the new notification settings. One thing they dropped the ball on was multitasking.  Android users have been used to multitasking for many years with each OEM giving it a slightly different look. With Lollipop they changed it up and basically turned the multitasking area into an app draw shown in the order you last opened the apps them rather than alphabetically. Everything you open just hangs there even after a restart, giving you a neverending carousel card stack of applications.  The reason I say this performs the same function as the app draw is that most of the apps are so old that they are no longer cached or running. So when you click on that 20th app it takes just as long to open as if you had used a home screen icon or the app draw.

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This is why true android SuperUser Chainfire stepped in and made a tiny 2MB application called Recently. Its main purpose is to bring some order to the chaos with a few simple but very effect options. With Recently you are able to limit the age of an app before it’s removed from the recents area. The minimum is 12 hours and the maximum is 2 weeks, with extremes such as only allowing apps which are actually running to appear or having no app age limits at all. I would like to see maybe 2-4 hours options as I still think 12 hours is a long time.  You can also limit the number of cards that appear in the list which are no longer running, from 1 to 63. Again with extremes of running apps only and no limit. I can see why you would want a few cards to be showing, even if they aren’t running, but I personally have it set so that only running apps are shown making it less of a Recently but more of a cache list.

 

If you enjoy the app you can donate £0.85p to Chainfire for his great work. Doing this will allow the app to run on boot so you don’t have to open it after each restart. A small price to pay for seamless functionality.

 

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