Do you think this will ever become available again in some form to 3rd party apps? I understand the problems task killers caused, but there are legitimate reasons for a user to force stop an app. (Like automating closing programs after an event using a program like Tasker.)
Thanks, -Bryan On Nov 9, 6:34 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Happy C. <taiwanhappin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does the "Force stop" in the setting of android 2.2 also use > > "KillBackgroundProcess" or use the system level API (developer can't > > use directly) to make it? > > Force stop uses the brutal real force stop mechanism that is no longer > available to third party apps. > > > I have tried the "KillBackgroundProcess" and adding the related > > permission, but it can't stop the running app either or running > > service like "Force stop" does. > > Correct, it can't kill processes that the system would not normally be free > to kill for out of memory reasons -- that is it only kills background > processes or processes running services, which can be killed without the > user being aware that something happened. > > If it killed a foreground process running an activity, for example, this > would lose the current state of the activity causing it to disappear. > > "Force stop" and my "KillBackgroundProcess" seems to have sent the > > > same signal 9. but they behave differently. > > I don't know why it doesn't work in my "KillBackgroundProcess". > > Force stop does a lot more than just killing processes. (Which is one of > the reasons the task killer apps' abuse of it has caused so many problems.) > > -- > 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
