I lost a draft post in Voyager on Android while I was a few apps away doing research and looking for a photo to add to the post.
That brought to me an understanding that Android will just kill apps for memory purposes.
Then I thought back to Windows 98 and how it had a page file that would write RAM information to the hard disk and use it as RAM. It was slow af, but it worked.
So I’m wondering: it’s 2026; why is Android just killing apps instead of writing them to a much faster drive for recall when needed?
And here the Voyager lemmy community insists it’s an OS issue.
That’s because voyager is a web app. It is a well designed and integrated PWA which makes it look and feel close to a native mobile app. The above mentioned preferred solution is Android specific and many multiplatform apps skip such optimization.
Nice! Thank you! That puts a lot of things in their proper context!!