Hi, Somewhat related and knowing that it is mostly frowned upon, I had been resisting the temptation of suggesting use of -
android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid()); - in this discussion, 'Application still Running After Exit' - http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/4158df007f07c52c/dc45c835c9ccb6a8 - as I found most of the discussion about exit buttons and task managers etc really annoying. I will continue to resist this temptation ;-) Regards On Nov 1, 5:17 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> > > wrote: > > > As far as using Application to clean up statics -- this simply doesn't > > > really make sense, for the reasons above. For a legacy application with > > > statics that can't be re-used again in the same process, your only choice > > is > > > probably to just self-kill your process when the user leave the game. > > Wait, what? I was under the distinct impression we should not be > > killing processes this way. > > You should not be, but if you have a bunch of legacy code that can't cleanly > work without doing so... well, sometimes you need to compromise. This does > have other negative consequences, so nobody writing Android applications > should do this. > > Games, though, games are sometimes so special. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > 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 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
