ProSwitcher - WebOS-like backgrounding on the iPhone

For you Jailbreakers out there, here's an app that really brings some interesting functionality to your iPhone.

ProSwitcher, a big breakthrough in the iPhone and iPod touch Jailbreak community, replicates the Palm Pre’s  seamless “Cards” multi-tasking feature. There is a high demand for the Pre's multi-tasking capabilities among iphone users and our initial tests show that this is a great way to add that capability to the iPhone.

ProSwitcher is a front-end interface to the popular “Backgrounder” application that has been circulating the jailbreak community for awhile now. The app allows you finely customize the way you want to multitask apps. You can trigger the cards view by opening the application from home-screen, touching the status bar, or by double clicking the home button. To add an application to the Cards view, you simple have to launch the app, then hold down the home button for about one to two seconds. To remove an app from the “Cards” view click the close button on the top left of the card, to swipe the card up the screen.

To download, add the Boolean Magic repository into Cydia, by adding http://booleanmagic.com/repo into your sources list.  Actually, ProSwitcher just showed up in the BigBoss repository so you'll see it in Cydia if you search for it.  Proswitcher will also install the latest Backgrounder app needed to function.  

This app is highly recommended for advanced jailbroken users on iPhone 3GS or latest generation iPod touch.  If you are on anything earlier, you see significant slowdown if you use anything more than a few apps.  Still, it is nice to be able to run Pandora or Fring in the background.

Interestingly, this application shows that real multitasking can work on the iPhone 3GS and above.  We'd like to see Apple make this type of functionality available in OS 4.0.

via iPhoneBlog