On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> killBackgroundProcesses works (you need a permission for it), but it > merely restarts the background services, so it's a little poorly > named. > Actually it does exactly what it says -- it kills a process. If an application has a service that it wants to keep running, the normal behavior of the system kicks in to restart the service for the app. As the documentation says, this allows the app to do the same thing is the out of memory killer (killing processes) without breaking applications by causing their services to be stopped when they don't expect (or unregister their alarms or the other things that fully stopping an app does). -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
