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

Try using the killBackgroundProcesses method:

ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
activityManager.killBackgroundProcesses("name.of.your.package");

You will need to add the KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES permission to your AndroidManifest.xml file.