There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes, and Google restricting background work. With every new Android release, Google seemingly further restricts what apps running in the ...

Dallas was working on cars at a Honda dealership rocking a MyTouch 4G when Artem and the gang started Android Police. It was this very website that got him into Android in the first place — he'd sneak ...

In the early days of Android, task killer apps were all the rage. Was your phone being a slow and janky piece of crap? That’s an easy fix, just kill all of the ongoing tasks and it should speed right ...

For years there have been popular apps that claim to make Android phones faster, but actually just kill background processes en masse which does more harm than good. But with Android 14, Google is ...

Some operations will cause an app to retreat to the background. They include locking the screen, returning home, switching apps and others. If the app continues to be active after retreating to the ...