On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Happy C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does the "Force stop" in the setting of android 2.2 also use > "KillBackgroundProcess" or use the system level API (developer can't > use directly) to make it? > Force stop uses the brutal real force stop mechanism that is no longer available to third party apps. > I have tried the "KillBackgroundProcess" and adding the related > permission, but it can't stop the running app either or running > service like "Force stop" does. > Correct, it can't kill processes that the system would not normally be free to kill for out of memory reasons -- that is it only kills background processes or processes running services, which can be killed without the user being aware that something happened. If it killed a foreground process running an activity, for example, this would lose the current state of the activity causing it to disappear. "Force stop" and my "KillBackgroundProcess" seems to have sent the > same signal 9. but they behave differently. > I don't know why it doesn't work in my "KillBackgroundProcess". > Force stop does a lot more than just killing processes. (Which is one of the reasons the task killer apps' abuse of it has caused so many problems.) -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] 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 [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
