Groups Window not closing like before update 4.3

[kil]

After the update to Android 4.3, group windows often don't close after you hit the home button to exit/switch apps.  This behavior is a little annoying.  Is this a bug or working as designed?

After I switch apps using the home button, I expect the group window I used to launch an app to be closed...I don't expect to press the home button twice.

[Tidbits]

Home button never killed apps from the inception of Android. Home has always thrown apps into the background with the option to run processes. Back button should always be used to "close" and cache apps. If this isn't happen in both cases of the intent then the developer code is at fault(whomever wrote the app that doesn't comply with how the OS itself does things).

[kil]

Maybe it's bad coding but multiple Apps do this.

Steps to replicate the issue:

1. open a group

2. Launch app

3. Hit home button

4.  Group window still open

If it's bad programming it seems odd that a lot of apps behave the same way since the update. It never did this before, I'm fairly sure it was the most recent update because my screen cracked and I had to get a  replacement phone. After update, the behavior changed... Same as my old phone.

I should also add the same apps don't behave this way with my galaxy nexus, pantech, or Sony tablet.

[kil]

A few apps that have this issue:  gmail, wordfeud, clash of clans.

[Tidbits]

Do you guys have multi window open or on?

[kil]

No.

[Tidbits]

Seems like a possible bad flash. I don't have this problem at all.

Last thing do you have SVoice home button turned on. I know when I had that on before it would cause delays. I have it turned off.

[Dave-in-Decatur]

If I'm understanding you correctly, I'm experiencing the same thing. It isn't a matter of specific apps, but of the way Android 4.3 now handles folders on Home screens. For instance, I have some folders on my Home screen with quick-dial links. I open the folder, tap a link, and it dials the contact. When I'm done and go back to my Home screen, there the folder is still open. The same thing happens with folders that have apps.

This is a change made in Android 4.3 in comparison to earlier versions of Android. Many people have commented on this online, most of them as unhappy about it as you and I, kil. (E.g., this post and the ones following it in an Android Central thread.) Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done about it. Maybe they'll change it back in the next version of Android, maybe not.

[kil]

Dave -- Thank you!  I just wanted to know I wasn't going crazy.  Any idea if this change has been documented anywhere?  It really sucks, I think.  I would like to give feedback to Verizon or Google, depending on who is the culprit, but I don't know where to go.

I should've called "groups," "folders" I think.  I don't know the exact Android OS terminology.  I'm not an expert by any means.

[Dave-in-Decatur]

Glad it helped! Totally agree with you on the ****ing. I don't know whether to blame this on Google or Samsung (probably not Verizon). This isn't the level of detail that usually shows up in user manuals and other documentation, in my experience.

I suspect there are some people who prefer it this way (so they don't have to re-open the folder to use another app or whatever). A matter of taste and work style. Maybe the Android developers will just go back and forth between the two camps every time they do an update. :rollseyes: