Another way is to kill the process explicitly using Application Process Id.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<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
