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The ability of smartphones to enable the concurrent functioning of multiple apps is known as: |
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I think the answer is multitasking.
MULTITASKING
It is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks or processes over a certain period of time. The newly occuring tasks can interrupt already started ones before they finish. They wont wait for them to end. This multitasking automatically interrupts the running program, saving its state and loading the saved state of another program and transferring control to it.
In smartphones it is different than computers. Applications in smartphones mostly iOS and Android, running in the background do not always necessarily display multitasking. They can, in fact, be in three states: running, sleeping and closed. When an app is in the running state, it is in the foreground and you are dealing with it. When an app is running, it works more or less like apps do on computers, i.e. its instructions are being executed by the processor and it does take space in memory. If it is a network app, it can receive and send data.
Almost all the time, apps on smartphones are in the suspended state. Means the app is no longer being executed in the processor and the place it occupies in memory is reclaimed should there be a shortage of memory space due to the running of other apps. In that case, the data it holds in memory is temporarily stored on secondary storage.Then, when you resume the app, it brings you exactly where you left off, rescheduling its instructions to be executed by the processor and bringing back the hibernating data from secondary storage to main memory.