Partly answering your question: What actually happens when you swipe an app out of the recent apps list?What actually happens when you swipe an app out of the recent apps list? So basically:
- would be like tapping the back-button from within the app until you're out of it (as opposed to just hitting the "home" button)
- means killing the app by sending it a "friendly exit signal"
- IMHO the same as the previous item (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not entirely sure with this)
- Force-Stop would forcefully remove all of the app's processes on system level (here the app would get no chance to interact, so it cannot even save its state or data. In easy terms: all system resources will be removed from it, so it can no longer continue to run)
For further information, also see:
- Closing applicationsClosing applications
- What is the right way to close apps in Android?What is the right way to close apps in Android?
- How can I stop applications and services from running?How can I stop applications and services from running?
- What does the “Force stop” button mean?What does the “Force stop” button mean?
