You are directing this to the wrong person. I do not call System.exit() in any of my shipping code, not in Android, not in Sun Java. But I have to agree with lbendlin's comments about the "paranoid user". Yet at the same time, once corrected for the logical mistakes in expression whose criticism Dianne rashly takes as personal, I have to agree with almost all of what Dianne said. The overwhelming majority of applications should never call System.exit(), especially since, as Dianne already pointed out, it does not even guarantee accomplishing what the OP asked of it. The right way is to use finish() and/or overload the lifecycle callbacks, e.g. onStop(), onDestroy() etc.
Finally, Google will see more people following these "best practices" and less fruitless arguments about what they are only when the hopelessly vague, outdated, or outright erroneous expression of those "best practices" in the online documentation are corrected. Several people have pointed this out several times by now (it isn't just me anymore), yet NOTHING has been done about it. For someone who knows what he is doing, it would take all of about 15 minutes of editing, but it seems Google would rather thousands around the world waste their time learning the hard way instead. On Apr 28, 3:04 pm, Miguel Morales <therevolti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Calling System.exit() or even asking for it tells me that your code flow is > seriously flawed. > The lifecycle of a mobile app is complex, and as such you should follow best > practices. > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > > > I have worked for companies where even highly experienced and > > otherwise valuable employees were fired for making posts like the one > > you made here. > > > On Apr 26, 6:37 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > You are ignore all of the other replies I didn't make to other threads > > > because of you. > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Actually, I think the post has had the desired effect, since Dianne > > > > has updated her answer with one that more directly addresses the OP's > > > > question, explaining that calling System.exit() can actually be > > > > harmful, rather than just being always unnecessary. > > > > > Oh, and those fancy terms ARE English. Their technical meanings in > > > > logic are explained at the web sites I used as references for the > > > > product description for SylloGizmo on slidme.org (http://slideme.org/ > > > > application/syllogizmo) as well as at the Stanford Encyclopedia of > > > > Philosophy's entry for the Square of Opposition, > > > >http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/square/ > > > > > Contraries go straight up and down in the Square, contradictories go > > > > along the diagonals. > > > > > On Apr 25, 5:46 pm, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Indicator Veritatis < > > mej1...@yahoo.com > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > In fact, one could believe you had answered it only if you confused > > the > > > > > > contrary and the contradictory of a non-null affirmative > > categorical > > > > > > statement. > > > > > > > In fact, the mismatch between his question and your 'answer' is > > giving > > > > me > > > > > > good ideas for how to update SylloGizmo to support using the Square > > of > > > > > > Opposition in entering and analyzing categorical syllogisms;) > > > > > > I'm a little slow, so I may be the only that didn't understand a word > > of > > > > > that. Your proficiency with a dictionary and thesaurus is impressive, > > but > > > > if > > > > > you have a point to make, you might want to make it in English so the > > > > rest > > > > > of us can follow along =P > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - > > Chicago > > > > > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > > 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. 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