Is this kind of ironic that by its name, restartPackage should stop and start the package/process? Looks like it's only doing the first part, which is stopping all services, notifications, alarms, etc.
I actually need a real RESTART method, anyone knows any? Thanks! On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:25 PM, justinh <[email protected]> wrote: > It's time for my own question about this API, that I think some people > here refer to as a "nuclear bomb" =) > > Yes, I'm an author of a "task killer" app, and for months it has > seemed to work out OK - the process is killed, and doesn't restart the > activity. Lately, however, I have started getting complaints about my > app "randomly starting other apps". I don't get very many returns so > this has led me to the hypothesis that this is carrier / hardware > specific. > > This is a mystery to me since all my app essentially does is call > restartPackage(). > > Two thoughts: > > 1) Is it possible that some carrier build out there has changed the > functionality of this method to *actually* restart the package after > it's process is killed? > > 2) I haven't tested with a SenseUI phone - I'm thinking there might be > a situation where my app is killing a process that is shared by their > SenseUI business or something, which is then relaunched on TIME_TICK > or TIMEZONE_CHANGED or something. (similar behavior to myFaves on the > G1). For example, their Facebook UI might share com.android.mms? Can > anyone confirm this? > > /braces for the coming assault. > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
