How to close Android application?

Question

I want to close my application, so that it no longer runs in the background.

How to do that? Is this good practice on Android platform?

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Answer 1

It's not possible using the framework APIs. It's at the discretion of the operating system (Android) to decide when a process should be removed or remain in memory. This is for efficiency reasons: if the user decides to relaunch the app, then it's already there without it having to be loaded into memory.

So no, it's not only discouraged, it's impossible to do so.