On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Yan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it safe to assume the new activity will have priorty over the > previous activity that is no longer accessible?
Since I have no idea what you are talking about, I certainly cannot assume that. > Will there not a > potentially corrupted zombie-process still lurking as the app > continues on its merry way? Only if you are a lousy developer. > Is it not more likely an exit() of some > kind would allow the system to clean-up unforeseen effects of the > corruption than the chance that the system would bringing any back > from the dead the next time the app starts up? By definition, to use exit() properly, you have to detect the conditions where exit() is needed. And, if you can detect when exit() is needed, then you do not need to call exit() -- you can reset your app to a well-known good state. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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

