True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

I am sure I am gonna get pounded for not knowing the technical intracies of multitasking in Android, but take a look at this...

http://www.onskreen.com/cornerstone/

In the gingerbread demo the guy has 3 apps on screen and is reading email/pictures while a youtube is going on in the bkground...

target is tablets, but wonder if it will work on something big like the galaxy note...

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

Google Wind River.

There was another one too, back when MeeGo was relevant...can't remember what the company was called.

Remembered it was by Ixonos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E1ckOoeRJg

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

Something like this would be a dream come. In comparison, I believe you can now multitask with unbuntu or your favorite linux image on many androids via VNC. Here the problem is, and please correct me if I'm wrong, using VNC does not work with sound. So much for listening to YouTube while doing some other task. Anyways this appears to not be a problem with Conerstone. I hope they succeed...

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

If you want a taste of multitasking now, just try stickit. This is a video player which stays in a window, overlaid on other apps.

https://lh5.ggpht.com/ciGBwYFcMM45c2...6ZAxDHm7Q=h230

Can show also multiple videos together :eek:

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

problem with android multitasking is that it kills tasks at will, many times even when there is abundancy of free memory

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

Good news! It looks like Onskreen is making Cornerstone open source.
If you currently have a Xoom they have an official ROM for you to try. I'd like to hear about folks experience. For other devices they provide the source but you have to incorporate it into a ROM. I'd love to see how this works on a Galaxy Note, Nook Tablet, WHATEVER!

Check the link in post #1
http://www.onskreen.com/cornerstone/

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

VNC (even local session) on Android chroot is a pain in the *** compared to Easy Debian an Xephyr.

It's slow, there's no OpenGL acceleration, it's really slow and laggy.

It's basically your last resort for running apps that aren't ported to Bionic libc (or apps that aren't compiled statically with libs, but that's another ***-backwards thing)

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

Face it, android cannot multitask. It is an OS for idiots who are incapable of doing more than one thing at a time.

Re: True Multitasking for Android ?....
 

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/o...valds-lca2011/

Money quote:

“I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it’s actually made cellphones very usable.” - Linus Torvalds

So the father of Linux is an idiot who is incapable of doing more than one thing at a time. Got it.

Goes to show this place is just a mirror of an iPhone forum.