How to kill my own Activity - the hard way

Question

So I have my Activity, and on pressing a \"Quit\" button I call Activity.finish(). This effectively closes my application.

The problem: The Dalvik-process of my applicat

Answer 1

So I have my Activity, and on pressing a "Quit" button I call Activity.finish(). This effectively closes my application.

Please don't do this.

The Dalvik-process of my application is still hanging around as a zombie in background.

The process is kept in a cache, for potential reuse by Android. You can safely ignore it.

I have a remote service connected to my Activity, and this service won't unload until my Activity unloads (which as said it never does).

You probably have a bug in your application, such as calling startService() and failing to call stopService(), or calling bindService() and failing to call unbindService().