Yes, you can have loads of
apps running in the background thanks to the huge amount of RAM available, but there is no way to truly make use of (at least) two apps at the same time without switching between them with the multitasking button.
Not exact matches
On Android, where
apps have more freedom to misbehave
thanks to a more flexible process model, bad
apps could
run in the
background while your phone is off, consuming CPU resources.
With Android P «s
background camera limits
in place, malicious
apps like the one described
in Mr. Sidor's blog post would be easier to detect as such malicious
apps would need to implement a foreground service to stay alive, and
thanks to Android Oreo's requirements, that would mean the the
app would have to display a notification telling you the
app is
running (and also that the
app is displaying on top of other
apps).
It was a breeze using the Mate 8 to look up restaurants and get a cab despite having several
apps running in the
background,
thanks to the phone's 2.3 - GHz / 1.8 - GHz octa - core Huawei Kirin 950 CPU.