Why not use the back button to exit your apps? I've never had the issue you are describing with any of our devices.
I use Pandora and not Spotify but I'd try doing that instead of clearing out recent apps every time you exit the app.
I do exit out the app! Thats the thing. Maybe there is a setting I've enabled that keeps them running? Maybe Pandora is not among the 3 I use?
So far Spotify, Aha, Waze have popped up, as well as WiFi Analyzer...
It comes on, and I have to stop the playing or try and swipe it away, or forced to unlock and X out of it. So if this happens as designed, there is something wrong in the design, if this can't be controlled. I don't like the OS dictating how I run it, and one of the main reasons I dropped iOS. To control what is happening.
I contact app developers all the time and politely describe app issues. 98% of them reply quickly and politely and work with me to push out a fix almost immediately. I've had some developers literally post a new version of the app within a couple hours, and some a couple of days.
Fair enough, I should try that suggestion, although not an immediate fix to this issue, it is an option I will need to explore.
For one, why would the OS control what features an app developer chooses to put into their app? That makes absolutely no sense. For two, this isn't iOS. Android is an open source operating system that many phone manufacturers customize to their own liking. Google doesn't control every aspect of the Android ecosystem.
That's like saying why does the OS have the option of truning OFF or ON WiFi. You're not being pragmatic. You're just looking at a way for me to be wrong. Why would you even take your time if all you want to do is say I'm wrong? No one is asking Google to control it, but don't you think the user should with an option, such as, "Completely exit out of app when exiting". Pretty simple.
The app developers ride the fine line of too much or not enough in developing. OS is there to give the user control. Why do you think in the new updates in security we have Permission tabs. Because iOS was killing Android in such breaches in security with apps running rampant.
But that is another discussion for another thread. This is me trying to see how I can not have things come up after I Exit an app. Can you imagine a computer with an app. You turn exit, and that is it. You may have some maintenance processes running for the next time you launch, and YES, that would make sense to a degree. But its on the Android it is doing more than that. Its interfering with my usage! Slowing me down and tripping up the entire experience of having a Smart phone...When it stupidly pops up with things I have no desire to deal with.
There are apps you can find on the play store to stop services and stop apps from running, but it's already been mentioned that it's not a good idea.
Ok
I don't understand what you are complaining about. You are literally upset about the way Android works under the hood. It works the way it was designed and it works well. If you want an OS that is closed source and under complete control, that's what Apple is for.
Let me answer that question for you...
I am upset that I cannot stop an app I want to use when I want to use it, and not use it and not interfere with my use when I decided to stop using it. Is this really that far a reach in a user perspective desire? Really?
No one is saying have a closed source. Why is it not logical to have an app stop what it is doing when you exit it? Why can't we have a "Sleep"vs Ëxit". As Exit defined means to leave, get out from. Its not a gray parallel! Its a defined function.
This really has nothing to do with any other OS, although we can compare, yet that is not what I need.
I get that your problem is annoying, and it's certainly fixable by some means. You just poo poo on every suggestion you get.
Sorry that you think I'm doo dooing on suggestions. Certainly not. I highly value each and all. I posted an issue, and it certainly needs some discussion and dialogue to pinpoint the issue for replies to have applicable solutions. As so far there are some guesses, and the ones I tried lead me to a dead end.
First response is
Jay3001, with the same bewilderment if it closes or not on Exit. Luckily he either has some other BT setting, which I will certainly explore, or doesn't use those apps.
I actually say this...
Thanks for the reply......
YEs, it maybe doing that, as the app is , as you say, just hidden. I'm trying to avoid my daily use of apps to resort to going into settings and each app to force quit. I am pretty sure that it would work, but whats the point of that.
I appreciate the thought, but this is a major functional handicap.
BG260 suggests about
AutoPlay in connections or settings. I have not found it, as there is no step/by step in where that might be. Under Settings, there is no AutoPlay, nor is there one under BT. So I was wondering if Im looking in the wrong spot. I eaven searched term Auto. No luck. But was waiting to try and report back.
Zuben Gnube also had something I honestly could not clearly understand. For a moment it
sounds like he too had some issue with this. Although i have a standard setup, other than Dev mode enabled. Just allowing Battery % to show and screen press confirm with a light up. Otehrwise a standard Nexus5X.
Lunatic had a nice detailed reply, except I went in
Spotify settings /Devices and there was "Listen on this Phone", and a "ChromeCast".
No others like my AVcar player. I did turn off all those notifications.
I may have not addressed a couple posts like that, and I apologize for that, as I'm still trying a few things before I say it doesn't work. Or I havn't been able to find your suggestion.