is there a task manager or how to end programs

**Gateau Noel** · 10-23-2008, 01:45 PM

is there a way to check programs running in the background and ending them? i found a task switcher but it doesnt end programs and alot are running after you have been doing this and that be it email text downloading web browsing settings a ton of stuff

**marcomixtle** · 10-23-2008, 01:48 PM

Windows Mobile OS is that way --->

**Lukster** · 10-23-2008, 01:50 PM

not as of yet..

**mixpix405** · 10-23-2008, 01:51 PM

first, I don't know of a way to stop them - short of rebooting the device

but, from what I've read about the OS, apps successfully "sleep" when not in use, so that they are not using any system resources... so there is really no need to end them.

**deeek** · 10-23-2008, 01:52 PM

Not at the moment, but I would imagine one is trying to be developed.

**Bratag** · 10-23-2008, 03:45 PM

So here is the deal. The SDk does include a killProcess function - it takes as an argument a PID - process ID. Now the catch. You can get a list of the running apps and this list includes a unique ID - which one would think would be the process ID of the process. One would be wrong. The process ID of your app to list these tasks can be obtained easily, and in .9 there used to be a getPids function to get the process ID's of everything. Naturally android had some limits on which procs you could kill which is neither here nor there. The upshot is THEY REMOVED THIS IN 1.0. Seriously Google removed so many useful funcs from the goddamn SDK in 1.0 it makes me wonder WTF they were thinking. 3 Apps in a row now (Auto orient switch, Call Blocker and TaskManager) have all be screwed right at the end of coding because google removed stuff from the SDK from .9 -> 1.0. I am hoping someone who is dealing with the source extends the SDK so that we can finally get the stuff we want from it.