I cannot agree with this as the recent task list in no way suggest killing the apps. Actually every users seems to see it differently. Some take that recent task list as the name suggest, recent tasks and activities, others see it as you suggest an app killing, but most users don't know what's actually happening when removing a task from that list.
Furthermore that list doesn't actually reflect apps still running, but the recent tasks or apps used by end-user. On boot I may have a dozen apps running, but no way to kill them (except going into settings, force-stop) if I haven't started them once, making this task killer the worse I've ever seen: it requires end-user to open the app before being able to kill it permanently! And it's not because I remove a task from that very list that I don't want its services to continue running. Looking at documentation for the Service class and the related manifest attributes definitely confirm the behavior of Android 4.0 to 4.3: With Android 4.4, the below flag is now ineffective, which falls into the bug category, not the other way around as you suggest. public static final int stopWithTask Added in API level 14<http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels> If set to true, this service with be automatically stopped when the user remove a task rooted in an activity owned by the application. The default is false. Must be a boolean value, either "true" or "false". public void onTaskRemoved (Intent<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html> rootIntent) Added in API level 14<http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels> This is called if the service is currently running and the user has removed a task that comes from the service's application. If you have set ServiceInfo.FLAG_STOP_WITH_TASK<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/ServiceInfo.html#FLAG_STOP_WITH_TASK> then you will not receive this callback; instead, the service will simply be stopped. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
