Task To Do Free List, an app in the Android Market, developed by Dr. Achim Leubner, attempts to integrate voice-command capability into a task-reminder app.

On the Settings page, scroll down until you see Calendar Notifications (Figure D). Figure D The Calendar and Task notification entries in the Settings page of the Google Calendar app.

There is still much to learn about task management and whether Android itself does a good job managing tasks/services. But sometimes, I wish I could kill a specific task, just to free up memory or ...

It’s all sorts of Android/Linux magic that you or I layfolk don’t need to worry about. In Android 14, if an app should call on this method, it will only be able to kill its own background ...

Code sleuth Leopeva64 spotted evidence of a task manager coming to Chrome for Android in the Chromium codebase. Check out the screenshot below.

Thankfully, Google is finally taking a hard stance against these scammy apps in Android 14. Esper's Mishaal Rahman has reported that Google is changing a key API used by task killer apps.