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

I had to add a Handler to delay the exit:

 mgr.set(AlarmManager.RTC, System.currentTimeMillis() + 200, mPendingIntent);
        final Handler handler = new Handler();
        handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Runtime.getRuntime().exit(0);
            }
        }, 100);