Along with this, this topic takes the one of the top in the Android tag on StackOverflow,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2033914/quitting-an-application-is-that-frowned-upon/2034238#2034238 kris On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Yan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree it may be dirty and icky, but its presumptuous to state that "You >> should "absolutely *should not* be doing this." There are many real-world >> situations where a program must be exited imediately or this call would not >> have been made available in the Android API. Perhaps you all don't remember >> the programmer that got sued for a bug that killed a patient with too much >> radiation because he didn't stop the program. There are many other non >> life-threatening cases where the right thing to do is to just halt the >> program. What would you do if you had zombie-game that users start running >> on some really slow devices and the frame-rate grinds down to 2 fps and your >> zombies look, well too dead, and then your app starts getting really bad >> ratings??? >> > > No. This is universally a hack, and you should not be doing this ever. > > There is always a better way, and your arguments are fundamentally > flawed for a number of reasons: > -- If you are running a radiation emitting device from an android > app, then you are using the system from something beyond its means > anyway, you should be modifying the firmware and using something like > a real time system, as the scheduler could be equally untrusted, all > you're doing it is pushing it further. > -- Your second example doesn't make any sense either, in this case > you could easily check hardware, and simply call a finish() on the > view, there's no need to use System.exit(). > > So no, this is universally a sign that the programmer took the cheap, > unprofessional way out. > > kris -- 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
