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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Actually I am not sure if we have true multi-tasking in Android. I have the HP Touchpad running both WebOS and ICS 4.04. In WebOS I can run a flash video (like Hulu) in the background and it does not stop when I switch to another window, in Android it stops and restarts when I return.
There is this "Cornerstone" hack which is supposed to provide real multitasking with 3 open windows at the same time. I didn't give it a thorough test drive yet.
Windows Mobile 5 and 6, those had real multitasking.
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It depends on how the application is implemented. To have multitasking, the application has to provide a service, which keeps running in the background when the application loses focus. The Activity part of the application (what the user interacts with), gets suspended when the application loses focus.
The behaviour you describe is probably intentional, to stop the video when you tab out of the app so you can resume at the same spot you were.