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

Similar to the System.exit(0) on the Java side, you can also call a native method during onDestroy which calls exit(0) on the C/C++ side. This seems to force the lib to exit completely. It's working for me!

Answer 2

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.