[General Questions and Answers] xTorment:
Sorry for any mispelling that may occur, I typed this on my phone. will fix any errors later on my computer.

Hi everyone, as the title says, I'm here to share my thoughts about the current multi-tasking capabilities.

In the last Google i/o (2014) , Google unveiled the new recents screen and said something like: ohhh we improved the multi tasking by adding chrome tabs! (I know they didn't say it like that but you get the point)

Since then I've been thinking... you fools are so damn off... both google, samsung and the "big" roms are terribly off on multi tasking in my opinion.

Yes, Samsung and Omni Rom have multi window but in my opinion, that's not pratical at all in phones, only good for tablets and tablet wise I have no complaints about that kind of multi tasking except that you have a limit of "duo tasking".

That aside, there's other options like Paranoid Android. old Halo and the new Hover. (personal favourite Rom btw)

Halo was great! probably the best multi tasking experience I've had on a phone, because it gave the ability to switch a task extremely fast with just one swipe and the swipe lenghth would determine what app will open. But you were limited to only notifications and the apps pinned with Halo))) app.

Hover on the other hand, is worse for multi tasking in general, but if the multi tasking is between a random app and the notifications you receive, then it has no match.

Excluding those options and others of the same kind, you have the good old recents button. Which sucks for multi tasking because you need 3 actions everytime. Click, swipe through the list and click again. and that is boring as hell when you need to switch between apps often (which is my case).

So... now, I'll tell you where I think this multi-taskings fail and what I think it should be like.

PA Hover should stay as it is. as PA states, it is only meant for notofications and is the best at what it does. So good that Google even implemented something similar on Android L.

Now then, let's compare Android to a Pc OS. is it the multi window that improves the multi tasking? I personally have most windows maxized all the time, except for file explorers to copy files easly. so how come I barely use the multi window features and multi task just fine on a computer?

Dear Google, Samsung, etc. it's because of something called taskbar (or dock for mac).

This taskbar is the equivalent to your recent buttons, but is always displayed.

And that's where all the android multi task fails.

Tell me in the comments if you agree/disagree...

I have thought of ways for this to work... the most beautiful looking would be to switch the navigation bar current buttons with the icons of the open apps (so, pretty much a taskbar xD) but then we would have no buttons to navigate...

having a taskbat on top of the navigation bar would look ugly and take alot of space.

A Halo option but with the open apps instead of the notifications would be great, but Halo is not the most new-users friendly feature.

And my last ideand which I think it really is possible and would work well, is:

recents button removed (obviously), back and home button would get closer to each other on the left of the navigation bar (like the old ics and jb tablet UI) and fro. the middle to the end of the right side a horizontal scrollable list of open apps. swiping a app up would close it.

So... what do you guys think?