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Re:Don't kill my app by isodev on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:26AM (#38405565)
While suspending may be the first state, the OS can choose to fully evict the app from memory if it needs it for other tasks. So a "good app" saves state before being suspended so that upon resume, it can restore from disk even if it was "killed".
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Re:Don't kill my app by g-b-r on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:37PM (#38435319)
Yes, but in practice almost all apps don't do it always with the complete state,; and on phones that don't kill them so easily most of the times you can switch between apps without problems.
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