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<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mitch_hedberg.html> - >>> "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > Sujay > Frank Lloyd > Wright<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/frank_lloyd_wright.html> - > "TV is chewing gum for the eyes." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
