Maybe you have a memory leak.

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/avoiding-memory-leaks.html


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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