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TaskPanel X

July 19th, 2009 admin

TaskPanel is my 2nd Android phone application. Thanks to your support, it has now exceeded 120,000 downloads worldwide.

In a simple yet intuitive Tab-based user-interface, TaskPanel X enables you to view tasks that are running in the background, tasks that are inserted to the ignore list and tasks that will be AUTO-KILL when the screen goes off. Killing a running task is never as easy as before. TaskPanel X allows customization where you can change the theme, enable instant access (via ongoing notification), backup/restore previous settings and many more.

To make life a lot easier, TaskPanel X comes pre-installed with 2 Home Screen Widgets. The 1×1 widget saves up space on your Home screen yet providing you a sophisticated Kill-All feature and a comprehensive status report right after. If you can afford space on your Home screen, go for the 4×1 widget. The 4×1 widget shows you the remaining memory and health status of your phone on an update interval configured by you.

Experience the difference in speed when you use TaskPanel X.

IMPT: If you are currently using TaskPanel, please uninstall it to install TaskPanel X instead. I have lost the developer private key to make further any future changes to TaskPanel. Thank you for your support!!!

Version History:

6.6.2 - New revamped UI, New 4×1 Widget, Built using the latest Android SDK 2.1

Disclaimer:

BY INSTALLING THIS APPLICATION, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE USING THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL THE DEVELOPER BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES.

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  1. Rafael Gawenda
    July 27th, 2009 at 19:55 | #1

    Your app is the best of the many taskmgrs available (I tested quite of all), and is the simplest, cleanest, and lightest of them all, and so I told in some forums, but…
    I get only one thing missing from it. Not that I restart my phone regularly, but it doesn’t autostart! :/
    Any chance here?

  2. August 6th, 2009 at 04:18 | #2

    Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!

  3. admin
    August 10th, 2009 at 17:06 | #3

    I have fixed the bug. Thanks for informing me :)

  4. Steve E
    August 13th, 2009 at 02:32 | #4

    Good App. Would love to see memory usage/processor % or something similar for each task shown, so we can figure out which ones are eating the battery.

    Cheers

  5. Bruce
    August 13th, 2009 at 03:57 | #5

    TaskPanel is a superb app. Well done. I am new to the Android community myself, with a MT3G (Magic) phone I purchased last week. I do Mac OS tech support for a living. I could have bought an iPhone, but this Android platform looks very interesting…

    I would like to see you extend the functionality of TaskPanel a little bit. I would like to see a widget that displays the available memory. Clicking on the widget would open TaskPanel. This would be ideal for me.

  6. Substance242
    August 13th, 2009 at 07:45 | #6

    I am new to Android and Hero, but after looking at other task managers, I chose this one, big thanks from Slovakia. :-)

  7. Bob
    August 14th, 2009 at 15:19 | #7

    I have had my HTC Hero for two days, and I’ve already learned to love your TaskPanel application. The first day I were a bit puzzled by the lag I got after toying around witg my new phone, but this app saved me!

    If I may come with a couple of suggestions that I think would be very nice:
    * I second Steve E on displaying memory usage, CPU etc
    * It would be nice to be able to force a kill of all apps on the wanted list (and not ALL applications, as is the only option now)
    * A small symbol on every app in the list to indicate if they are on the wanted or ignore list (and also to display apps on the ignore list, but e.g. grayed out, so that you easily can manually kill one of those if they are running)
    * Make the auto-killer not kill an application if you actually have it open and are using it

    It is a few points, but they are only meant as means to perfection, as your app already is brilliant :)

  8. LaughingJohn
    August 20th, 2009 at 17:49 | #8

    Want to say a big thanks for this. I’m a (non-Android) developer myself and couldn’t believe how poorly designed the other task managers I tried were.

    Came across yours and it is so much better designed, safer (one click kill is NOT a good thing), easy to build the ignore list, better laid out.

    You got my 5 stars.

    I do have one quick question, when you exit the app does it die or does it remain in the background (I’m hoping it dies)???

  9. admin
    August 21st, 2009 at 17:07 | #9

    It dies.

  10. Dekans
    August 23rd, 2009 at 05:34 | #10

    The auto-kill service should not kill application that has the focus

  11. ajj_oslo
    August 25th, 2009 at 10:30 | #11

    Nice application. Keep up the good work. Still a lot of potential. Agree with all suggestions from Bob (14th Aug.) In addition, it should kill all Wanted apps when the threshold reaches. When can we accept a new release?

  12. jayjay
    August 30th, 2009 at 02:07 | #12

    Dekans: Maybe this is fixed? I put browser on the wanted list, waited for the next autokill run and the browser remained open. I then put the browser in the background and five mins later the browser died… So maybe it doesn’t kill the active app anymore?

  13. jayjay
    August 30th, 2009 at 02:25 | #13

    Nope… doesn’t. It just killed my “messages” just as I was about to write an sms to a friend. This would be on my wanted list as well: to not kill tasks that are “active”. But this presents a problem. If you are attaching a photo for an mms, you open messages, move to albums for attaching a photo, maybe activate the camera to take a picture for the mms. Which program is considered active?

  14. admin
    September 6th, 2009 at 21:50 | #14

    Thanks for highlighting. I will work on this as soon as I find time. :)

  15. kwogs
    September 7th, 2009 at 12:06 | #15

    Huh, when you changed TaskPanel to TaskPanel X, I can no longer install it. It keeps on telling me “Download Unsuccessful”. And yes, I’ve tried installing other apps – they download and install fine. This is pretty annoying since TaskPanel is my most used app…and I uninstalled it while trying to update.

    Oh, and yeah, this app is awesome. Props.

  16. admin
    September 7th, 2009 at 17:43 | #16

    Please uninstall existing version before installing the newer one. Hope it helps…

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