Sergio, To stop the background task - stop the background task.
It's your own code, so it's under your control. The framework tells you when things happen via activity state callbacks (onPause / onResume), you just need to do the right thing with them. For your second issue: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html set clearTaskOnLaunch to true. -- Kostya 2011/1/17 Sergio Luceno <[email protected]> > I wanna do that, because I have a task running on background. And i > wanna stop it when the application is closed. This task is doing http > calls every X minutes to sync the application data over internet. > > Also, android OS keep the state of the application and open it at the > last activity where the user was on. > > I would like to open the application always by the main activity. also > this main activity is doing a login call, which receive the session id > to make more http calls. I have a risk to loose the session id, while > the user is not using the app and it stills in memory for a long time. > > > > On 17 ene, 11:55, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why would you try to do that? The OS would get rid of it whenever it > feels > > necessary. ie, whenever, the device runs low on memory. > > > > Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Sergio Luceno <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > Is there a way to force the application not keep running after close > > > it? > > > > > When the user closes de applications, it always is running memory. > > > > > Is it possible to define some at the manifest to force the app to be > > > removed from the memory? > > > > > I was trying to find out some parameter at the manifest... but I > > > didn't find nothing > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > -- > > > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]><android-developers%2Bunsubs > [email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
