Whenever I go to my homescreen or otherwise load another app the previous one closes. If I’m browsing Lemmy and I open a page linked on a post to read it, my app will have reset itself when I close the tab and I either have to give up or root around for the post.

This OS is borderline unusable in this state. It even evicts my homescreen app so there’s a 5-10 second lag when tapping the circle button.

Any tips? I have 8GB of RAM, which should be more than enough for a dozen apps.

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I have a theory: this OS doesn’t know how to swap correctly. It either loads the whole APK or kills the scope/whatever the android term is (for things that aren’t set to always run.)

    I think this is because APKs are zipped files and thus the android developers decided that ZIP reads makes a ton of sequential cached file misses. So then it would have to been loaded from the storage. Back when android was made these were expensive, and slow.

    So it always loads the whole renamed zip :3