How do I programmatically “restart” an Android app?

Question

Firstly, I know that one should not really kill/restart an application on Android. In my use case, I want to factory-reset my application in a specific case where a server s

Answer 1

Jake Wharton recently published his ProcessPhoenix library, which does this in a reliable way. You basically only have to call:

ProcessPhoenix.triggerRebirth(context);

The library will automatically finish the calling activity, kill the application process and restart the default application activity afterwards.