Finish is the recommended way of closing Activites. You should be using only this to exit your Activities. The OS will take care of the Application as a whole.
Kumar Bibek http://techdroid.kbeanie.com http://www.kbeanie.com On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:45 AM, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 11:17 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:27 AM, 20plus10 30 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It wil stop the application ttally. > > > It kills its own proccess. > > > > It does kill the process, but that does not stop the application totally. > > Don't use this. > > > In the usual case of the Application only having one Process what part > of the application would not be stopped? > > 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. > > 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? > > > > -- > > 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]<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
