Android: Killing (all) Foreground running App

Question

I am looking for a way to kill the foreground Dalvik App(actively running) from the linux kernel(using it\'s process ID)?

How can I achieve this? any ideas? Does the ke

Answer 1

This will get all running processes and kill those with the specified pid:

ArrayList<Integer> pids = new ArrayList<Integer>();
ActivityManager  manager = (ActivityManager)this.getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> listOfProcesses = manager.getRunningAppProcesses();
for (ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo process : listOfProcesses)
{
    if (pids.contains(process.pid))
    {
        // Ends the app
        manager.restartPackage(process.processName);
    }
}

You will need these permissions to do this:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RESTART_PACKAGES"/>