i tried that out... ddms says that the process died... but when i long press the home button to see the running apps, i see mine as well... then y does ddms say that the process was killed??? Is it a bug that a dead process still gets displayed along with other running apps??? can any one temme y this is happening???
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Mariano Kamp <mariano.k...@gmail.com>wrote: > I never saw a need for that and don't know what would happen. Try it out. > My guess would be, that you can kill the processes launched by your user > id. > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Sujay Krishna Suresh < > sujay.coold...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thanks.... but if thats the case, why does the sdk provide >> Process.killProcess(Process.myPid())??? >> & wat does android actually do when i call this method as above??? >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Mariano Kamp <mariano.k...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> In short: Don't worry. >>> >>> A bit longer: Android manages the apps' states. >>> The user keeps on doing things, launching tasks, firing intents etc. and >>> when Android OS doesn't have enough memory left it kills of apps that are in >>> memory, but don't seem that important anymore, e.g. because the UI is not >>> visible anymore as the user navigated back to the home screen or to another >>> app/activity. If you app is needed again Android OS will resurrect you >>> app/activity. Just implement the proper call backs >>> (onCreate/onResume/onPause etc.) and your good to go. >>> >>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Sujay Krishna Suresh < >>> sujay.coold...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Say i wanna do something like java's System.exit(0)... >>>> jus to make sure that my application is not running anymore... >>>> I wanna kill my own app... not other apps... this should be possible... >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Saurav Mukherjee < >>>>> to.saurav.mukher...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> how do i kill an android application >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Why would you want to do that? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Sujay >>>> Mitch >>>> Hedberg<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mitch_hedberg.html> - >>>> "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Sujay >> Frank Lloyd >> Wright<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/frank_lloyd_wright.html> >> - "TV is chewing gum for the eyes." >> >> > > > > -- Regards, Sujay Mitch Hedberg<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mitch_hedberg.html> - "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
