In android 14 most apps background apps are frozen in memory. Just because you see a force stop button doesn't mean its actually doing any work or consuming batttery.
Android does memory and battery management on its own. You also get some options to further restrict apps should you desire but that may break some apps.
Apps don't necessarily stop running unless you do Force Stop. It's always been this way.
In addition, swiping apps away in order to stop them has always been counterproductive on Android. Not only because it doesn't necessarily stop all of the app components, but also because it wastes resources. Android will stop apps as needed when memory is needed. In all other cases it will maximize memory usage in order to minimize CPU and IO making things faster. Stopping apps is only useful in special circumstances like killing a misbehaving app, etc.
You could limit per-app background usage since Android something, but even then it doesn't matter if you close them from the app list. Shortly after the all is no longer in the foreground, it will stop running, all of its components. It might still be possible for it to wake up now and then but for the majority of the time it wouldn't run.
Just because it shows the Force Stop button doesn't mean it's running, merely that at least one of its components is loaded. That can be just about anything. I have apps I know for a fact cannot run in the background that shows the force stop button.
Mainly, it boils down to battery management and the Android architecture. Android apps are very modular, so the Java class for handling push notifications might be loaded but none of its screens or other services would be loaded and it uses negligible amounts of memory. It's way more battery efficient than reloading it from storage, and if the system needs memory it'll clear some caches.
Looks like a notification bar. Just a wild guess, but maybe there's an invisible notification causing it to auto-display. If so, you might be able to fix it by limiting notifications for the app.
Looks like a notification bar. Just a wild guess, but maybe there's an invisible notification causing it to auto-display. If so, you might be able to fix it by limiting notifications for the app.
You can open a second or third instance of material files via the three dots menu. You then have the app multiple times open and can copy/cut and paste between them.
Its not quite two panes but maybe better on a small screen. Its also a feature that's easy to miss.
At my last upgrade, the new phone asked if I wanted to get stuff from my old phone, then walked me through it. Was a pretty decent amount of data and it didn't take all that long. As i recall, it was Bluetooth, but there was an option to use a cable.
I keep trying to find a fun game that isn't a pay to win where you need to whale hundreds of dollars for a -chance- to get something usable (FE Heroes is kinda like this but not too bad) but everything on the app store seems like garbage whenever I look. It's all designed to punish you if you don't pay enough money. I don't mind paying a bit for a game I like but I can't really find anything good.
I might end up just buying Slay The Spire, even though I already own it on PC.
All the way through your comment I was thinking, you should try Slay the Spire, but you beat me to it. Another one you might consider is Star Traders: Frontiers I don't think it has any microtransactions (it's also on Steam)
I'm not a fan of touchscreen buttons, so I ended up getting a few SBC Gaming devices that emulate games really well and with a native or scaled resolution to match original systems. Or just play them on original hardware (using a flash cartridge if needed).
But to avoid carrying an extra device, android emulation is the way to go.
Tracker control makes it really convenient to turn off internet access for a bunch of apps, perhaps that could speed up the trial and error? Though the tracker blocking functionality might kinda get in the way if it tries to block the segment.io traffic, so you might need to set it up specifically for your needs
It's an app that pretends to be a VPN so it can filter out network traffic from apps seeking to track the user, but its very easy to to just turn internet off for a given app
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