Multifl0w... Wow!! Best/New Way to Multi-Task! (Update out, close apps easily)

[thelatinist]

Got a Twitter response from the developer, and he said he's working on a way to kill tasks from within multifl0w. I hope he uses the method Safari does. A little red X would be perfect. Incidentally, this is just about how I imagined Apple implementing backgrounding if and when they ever did.

It looked like it in the vid. BTW it's also on the Cydia app store now.

pixelated was commenting on your use of a double-negative. In English, "didn't not" means exactly the same as "did," so you said that it would be better if they did use the double-tap. Of course, most people (including, I suspect, pixelated) would be able to figure out from context what you meant.

 

[globol]

When you open an apple app it always take you back to where you left off. Looks like this multiflow only takes a screen shot and creates a shortcut to return to the app with cover flow list if anything. Doesn't look like mutitasking to me. They need to run two music apps at the same time to convince me this does mulitasking. Other than that's it's just a cover flow shortcut list and nothing more.

 

[MarkCollette]

Hey, I don't have an iPhone, but want one eventually. Can the iPhone, without any special add-on application like this one, play music while letting me browse the web and run apps? Or can it only play music when not using the web browser, or not running other apps?

 

[globol]

Hey, I don't have an iPhone, but want one eventually. Can the iPhone, without any special add-on application like this one, play music while letting me browse the web and run apps? Or can it only play music when not using the web browser, or not running other apps?

You can play music on your iPhone (built-in iPod) and search the web at the same time. You don't need any special apps.

 

[thelatinist]

When you open an apple app it always take you back to where you left off. Looks like this multiflow only takes a screen shot and creates a shortcut to return to the app with cover flow list if anything. Doesn't look like mutitasking to me. They need to run two music apps at the same time to convince me this does mulitasking. Other than that's it's just a cover flow shortcut list and nothing more.

Come off it. This application doesn't handle the backgrounding, it just provides a convenient task switcher. The backgrounding (which was clearly demonstrated in the video) is still done using the freely-available app Backgrounder which many of us have been using to multitask for a long time. Do you need convincing that Backgrounder works? I can assure you that I am using it to listen to Text-to-speech in the background right now.

 

[XXXXX]

Come off it. This application doesn't handle the backgrounding, it just provides a convenient task switcher. The backgrounding (which was clearly demonstrated in the video) is still done using the freely-available app Backgrounder which many of us have been using to multitask for a long time. Do you need convincing that Backgrounder works? I can assure you that I am using it to listen to Text-to-speech in the background right now.

Not to jump all over this thread, but I just ask what app you're using for your Text-To-Speech? Im after somthing that will play my incomming sms messages whilst driving...

 

[darngooddesign]

When you open an apple app it always take you back to where you left off. Looks like this multiflow only takes a screen shot and creates a shortcut to return to the app with cover flow list if anything. Doesn't look like mutitasking to me. They need to run two music apps at the same time to convince me this does mulitasking. Other than that's it's just a cover flow shortcut list and nothing more.

This is just a app switcher for backfrounded app. Backgrounder does the multitasking.

 

[Cortezbanks]

Would definitely be in on this if you could close apps in multifl0w

 

[Ugene1583]

It would be nice if it allowed for automatic backgrounding once you open up any app and the only way to kill the app/backgrounding is with multifl0w...sort like on the palm pre

 

[JNGold]

After a couple of days of use, I had to uninstall. It was making the device too unstable. I found a nice comfort/stability level with InfoLock, sbSettings, 3GEnabler, Backgrounder, Snappy, and Orbit.

Hopefully, the dev will release some code updates to improve stability.

 

[darngooddesign]

My stock apple apps, except for Safari, are showing up blank in MF. Anyone else having this?

 

[thelatinist]

It would be nice if it allowed for automatic backgrounding once you open up any app and the only way to kill the app/backgrounding is with multifl0w...sort like on the palm pre

That would be absolutely horrible. Even the 3GS doesn't have enough memory to support that. You really want to have to open up another app any time you want to close the weather app or the stupid tick-tack-toe game you downloaded?

You can always set backgrounder automatically to background whatever apps you truly need backgrounded all the time. I've set up AOL Radio to do that, for instance.

 

[danya101]

works better on the 3gs
with my 3g i can only run 1-2 modest memory using apps via backgrounder

 

[dhy8386]

New update just posted. Fixes all my bugs. No more blank screenshots. No more crashes. Also (although it may have done this before) it now takes continuous snapshots so everytime you go into a backgrounded app and exit it there is a snapshot taken. This is nice because it shows the last thing you were doing.

My trial expires soon but i would really like to hear about progress towards closing apps using multifl0w. I just dont know if its a big endeavor or if the developer plans on implementing this soon. This app has real promise and the quick bug fixes give me confidence the developer is moving quickly. I think it has to be the next feature add as right now I think the app is overpriced.

 

[Vandam500]

New update just posted. Fixes all my bugs. No more blank screenshots. No more crashes. Also (although it may have done this before) it now takes continuous snapshots so everytime you go into a backgrounded app and exit it there is a snapshot taken. This is nice because it shows the last thing you were doing.

My trial expires soon but i would really like to hear about progress towards closing apps using multifl0w. I just dont know if its a big endeavor or if the developer plans on implementing this soon. This app has real promise and the quick bug fixes give me confidence the developer is moving quickly. I think it has to be the next feature add as right now I think the app is overpriced.

I can also confirm that version 1.1.1 fixed all the bugs!! No more crashing and screenshot problem fixed! It's perfectly working now and all we need is a way to close apps extremely worth it people. I love multifl0w

 

[thelatinist]

I gave Multifl0w a try earlier. First time I tried to use it it crashed SpringBoard. Then it gave me blank screens. One screen just said the name of the app in white text. Another was just blank. A third showed the icon for a completely different app! It seemed to work okay with calculator, etc., but after playing with it for a half hour I decided to uninstall and return to Kirikae.

 

[Vandam500]

I gave Multifl0w a try earlier. First time I tried to use it it crashed SpringBoard. Then it gave me blank screens. One screen just said the name of the app in white text. Another was just blank. A third showed the icon for a completely different app! It seemed to work okay with calculator, etc., but after playing with it for a half hour I decided to uninstall and return to Kirikae.

That's odd. Version 1.1.1 fixed all those bugs you mentioned.

 

[eaglesteve]

I much prefer Kirikae, and I hope if Apple implements task switching/killing, it will follow Kirikae's UI rather than follow the Multifl0 ones. Here are the reasons why I hope that:
1) The sprinboard icon is the most efficient way and easy way to identify and recognise an application, not the screen they are displaying. If I have a news fee application running while using a browser such as Oceanus, and both are displyaing New York Times web pages, it would be very difficult to know which is which with Multifl0, but right away we know with Kirikae.
2) It is so much more efficient to see all running task and switch to any one of them with Kirikae. No need to keep swipping, which is a pain to me. Swipping being a pain is the reason I use Orbit/Overboard, so that I can see everthing in ONE page. Kirikae lets me see all my running task in ONE page and like in Orbit/Overboard, jump to any application quickly. I hate to swipe swipe swipe. That's why I hate the cover flow in iPod in landscape mode. I always lock my screen to use it in portrait mode when playing music, because I don't like to swipe swipe swipe.

If Multifl0 author wants to please everybody, then make it a user option to choose between which UI they like, and give options such as:
1) Kirikae's way
2) Cover flow way
3) Safari open tab way.

 

[dhy8386]

New multifl0w update is kickass. Ability to close apps with a safari like X. He also fixed the memory leak issues i believe. Its fast, low memory footprint and very very cool. Lots of possibilities here and he seems willing to keep adding to it.

 

[Vandam500]

New multifl0w update is kickass. Ability to close apps with a safari like X. He also fixed the memory leak issues i believe. Its fast, low memory footprint and very very cool. Lots of possibilities here and he seems willing to keep adding to it.

Yes sir!

 

[dhy8386]

As an FYI, just encountered a bug whereby I was in an app and could not exit out by pressing the home button. Not sure the circumstances but i had to exit the app in order to return to the springboard. I could switch apps, ie to the mail app, but then when in the mail app and invoking MF, i did not get the springboard. Sorry thats not helpful but ill try and reproduce and let you know.

Otherwise very stable. good stuff.

 

[zhenya]

New version crashed springboard and put me in safe mode when I tried to close a program from the X. Came back quickly, and it hasn't happened again, but there is clearly an issue there.

 

[Kahnyl]

****, this app has improved a lot since I last used it. The animations are great.

I really think though that it'd be better to use if the there was a consistency to the list of apps. That would mean showing the current app window as well as the others in the same order every time you evoke it so that it'd be predictable. And also remembering the position in line so when you re-evoke the list you're at the same place you were before and not at the beginning. It'd make it more intuitive to switch apps quickly.

 

[OhioLefty]

****, this app has improved a lot since I last used it. The animations are great.

I really think though that it'd be better to use if the there was a consistency to the list of apps. That would mean showing the current app window as well as the others in the same order every time you evoke it so that it'd be predictable. And also remembering the position in line so when you re-evoke the list you're at the same place you were before and not at the beginning. It'd make it more intuitive to switch apps quickly.

I agree with Kahnyl, it would be nice to have the current app in the "window". I just started using (trying) Multifl0w and maybe there is a small learning curve but I just find it a little awkward that if I have App A, App B and App C all open and I want to "close" the current app (App B for example), you can't close it unless you switch apps and put App B back in the "window". I've been using Kirikae and I guess I got used to invoking Kirikae and having a choice of which apps to close, all in a single list. Don't get me wrong, I really like the interface and it really works slick on my 3GS 16GB.

One other thing, at least for me, it seems to want to hang onto a little memory according SBSettings. If I try to "Free Up Memory" from SBSettings it will (for the lack of a better term) soft crash out SBSettings.

I'm sure there are more improvements to come to an already pretty good multitasking front end.

 

[okrelayer]

my biggest gripe, and the reason why i will not use this is that voice control is activated everytime i try to background an apple app. (such as safari, or sms)