onStart() does not have Bundle argument, are you talking about
onCreate(Bundle saveinstance)

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Kevin Duffey <andjar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As Dianne posted.. android takes care of destroying apps for you if you
> don't do it yourself.. when memory/resources is needed. Unlike any other
> platform (that I know of) for phones/tablets, Android is multi-process.. in
> that you can run many programs at once. Unlike a computer OS tho, only the
> top/front Activity is running along with background services (and
> android/linux OS processes). When you do not explicitly finish your app on
> back/home button press, it continues to be a running..yet paused process,
> unless you started a service, in which case it would continue to run. That
> is why in most books/articles you read, the onStart(Bundle bundle) is
> there.. to allow you to resume state from when Android OR the user either
> paused or actually killed your app to regain resources it might have been
> consuming. It's to allow you on the onPaus() to save state that may be
> needed on the onResume or onStart. I could be wrong..still getting my
> bearings on this as well, but onStart() is called when your app first starts
> with NULL passed in. If your app was shut down by Android while it was
> running, then the the onStart() is really a sort of onResume.. only the
> Bundle passed in won't be null. onResume is called when your app was paused
> due to the user pressing back/home or something else..like an incoming phone
> call or sms message or something becomes the front/top activity.. and then
> control returns to your app.
>
>
>   On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Even I was confused as to why the process should be running even after
>> I exited my app. But then I realized that I dont have to care about
>> that.'
>>
>> Kumar Bibek
>> http://tech-droid.blogspot.com
>>
>> On Jan 13, 9:07 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
>> > That is working as intended, as described here:
>> >
>> > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#proclife
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Android Developer <
>> kavithasuni...@gmail.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> >
>> > > I have an application which has one activity. The application is
>> > > launched. When i say back, OnDestory() would be called. This means
>> > > that the activity is being killed.
>> >
>> > > What will happen to the process? Will the process also be killed? But
>> > > when i use ps command i could see the process still running.
>> >
>> > > Will the process not be killed?
>> > > Can someone explain this in detail or provide from reference to get
>> > > information on the same.
>> >
>> > > Regards
>> >
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