@Dianne, But I think finish() kills only one activity at a time.With in a application if we want to close the application/kill the application totally from any activity then what to do? Regards Dileep
On Jan 11, 8:04 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:15 PM, jotobjects <jotobje...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the usual case of the Application only having one Process what part > > of the application would not be stopped? > > All of the state about the app is kept -- other activities the user has > visited, running services, etc. The process may quickly be restarted due to > this, or later be re-started in a different state to match them. > > > It seems that finish() is the better way so that the Android platform > > can manage the process lifecycle, but finish() only stops one Activity > > not all the components of the Application. The > > FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP from the launch Activity will stop the > > Activities (if there is not more than one Task involved) but not the > > Service components. It comes back to designing Apps that do not need > > to be stopped. > > Well, killing the process absolutely does not mean clean up the activity > history. > > > The real world case I encountered recently was an App that required > > registration and exited automatically if the user did not complete the > > registration steps. This was done with finish(). Is there any better > > way to accomplish that kind of requirement? > > Use finish(). > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
