Longpress in home only shows the last accessed apps, not the currently running apps.
-- Urs On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Sujay Krishna Suresh <[email protected]> wrote: > i tried that out... ddms says that the process died... > but when i long press the home button to see the running apps, i see mine as > well... > then y does ddms say that the process was killed??? > Is it a bug that a dead process still gets displayed along with other > running apps??? > can any one temme y this is happening??? > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I never saw a need for that and don't know what would happen. Try it out. >> My guess would be, that you can kill the processes launched by your user >> id. >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Sujay Krishna Suresh >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> thanks.... but if thats the case, why does the sdk provide >>> Process.killProcess(Process.myPid())??? >>> & wat does android actually do when i call this method as above??? >>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> In short: Don't worry. >>>> >>>> A bit longer: Android manages the apps' states. >>>> The user keeps on doing things, launching tasks, firing intents etc. and >>>> when Android OS doesn't have enough memory left it kills of apps that are >>>> in >>>> memory, but don't seem that important anymore, e.g. because the UI is not >>>> visible anymore as the user navigated back to the home screen or to another >>>> app/activity. If you app is needed again Android OS will resurrect you >>>> app/activity. Just implement the proper call backs >>>> (onCreate/onResume/onPause etc.) and your good to go. >>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Sujay Krishna Suresh >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Say i wanna do something like java's System.exit(0)... >>>>> jus to make sure that my application is not running anymore... >>>>> I wanna kill my own app... not other apps... this should be possible... >>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Saurav Mukherjee >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> how do i kill an android application >>>>>> >>>>>> Why would you want to do that? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Sujay >>>>> Mitch Hedberg - "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to >>>>> water them." >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Sujay >>> Frank Lloyd Wright - "TV is chewing gum for the eyes." >>> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Sujay > Mitch Hedberg - "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water > them." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
