On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Emre A. Yavuz <eayl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Does anybody know why an "[app_process]" stays alive after the finish() > method is called to stop an "Activity" ?
Because there are other components still active. If all components are inactive, the process will remain alive until Android terminates or recycles it. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#proclife -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 2.2 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- 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