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View currently running applications

Click “Home” button for a few seconds on your phone. At-most six recent applications should show up neatly stacked.

From Android 4.0, you can flick the running apps to the right to stop them.

You can also control the running apps in system settings. Find it here.

11 Comments

  1. Not convinced wrote:

    Are you sure that applications cannot be closed?

    Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 12:39 am | Permalink
  2. droid wrote:

    Yes, the apps cannot be closed, android offers intelligent app management.

    Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 2:18 am | Permalink
  3. Phineas wrote:

    What does “intelligent app management” mean? Does the seventh app automatically close, no matter what it is, when displaced by a new sixth app? Or what?

    Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 1:15 am | Permalink
  4. James Ots wrote:

    It means that when the system is running out of memory, programmes are closed which aren’t in use. But because (well written) android programmes save their state when closed, you shouldn’t be able to tell it was closed when you next use it. The developer website explains it in more detail: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ProcessLifecycle

    Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 12:35 pm | Permalink
  5. Keion wrote:

    Yes apps can be closed, it can be done within the application manager under setting.

    Monday, February 1, 2010 at 2:41 am | Permalink
  6. Testing AIR and Flash Player …
    who knows?
    get an android @google?
    In Brazil?

    Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
  7. anon wrote:

    These are recently used apps not running apps.
    If you use a Task Killer, these still appear as recent apps.

    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 2:32 pm | Permalink
  8. shree wrote:

    The people who fix it, never tells how they did it. It will be of help to others.

    Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 2:01 am | Permalink
  9. Sarath Joseph wrote:

    Advanced App Killer is an awesome app for this.

    Friday, March 18, 2011 at 11:23 am | Permalink
  10. Sashidhar wrote:

    With Android v2.3 this can be solved. Seeing the battery usage on my HTC Desire I decided to move to 2.3 and now the battery backup is wonderful. (Moving to 2.3 version is not officially available on HTC and deciding to move was at my own risk).

    With version 2.3 you can use the back button (hold it for alonger suration like 2 seconds) and the application is killed immediately.

    Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 9:20 am | Permalink
  11. Andy wrote:

    Thank you so much. Such a simple sllution, but saved me a bunch of time.

    Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 11:19 am | Permalink

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