Hello Dianne, Ok, I understand your point, but this Android feature is giving me a headache. Instead of solve this issue (force stop) , lets change the conversation angle. I have an app (App1) that controls the excecution of another one (App2). The problem that I have is that the app1 decides how many time the app2 can be run. The execution steps are the following: Launches the app1 and the user selects from a menu to launch app2 (app2 is launched from app1). The thing is that app2 should run just for a few seconds.
If the user accesses to the application manager and makes a force stop of app1, he will be able to run app2 as many as he wants. I need to know when this happens (app1 is being killed) to kill app2 too, BUT the problem here is that I cant change the code of app2. So, how can I resolve this?? Thanks in advance!! Emy On Oct 2, 5:37 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/10/2 José Prieto Garay <[email protected]> > > > I think this is the point, normally when our application needs to be > > destroyed in order to release memory, or it's in a lower priority then > > onDestroy() is called. > > That is not true. If the user presses home, they will leave your app, it > will go in the background, and onDestroy() will not be called. If you have > left a service running, it is still in the background, and it is running, > onDestroy() has not been called, but the system could very well kill it > anyway when under memory pressure (which you will see a lot on devices like > the G1 or myTouch). > > > With this "Force Stop" stuff not, there isn't any way to be aware > > about our threads and tasks to be killed. > > So how is this any different from a user going to the windows task manager > and force killing an app? Or your application crashing while it is > running? Or it ANRing and the user deciding to kill it? Or the user > pulling the battery from their device? Or a desktop machine losing power? > I don't think any of these things should leave an application in a bad state > it can't recover from. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
