How to close an Android Application which contain many activities?

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I have an application with 6 activities,

* Home--> A1 ---> A5
* Home--> A2 ---> A5
* Home--> A3 ---> A5
* Home--> A4 ---> A5

And with a menu which can reach directly Home, A1, A2, A3 and A4 from any activities.

I want to add to the menu an item "Exit application".

How can I do this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2042222/close-application — Sunny Kumar Aditya, Jun 01 '12 at 09:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Well there is no real "Exit" concept in Android - and your design should not allow users to do so. Take a look at this and see if you can use this thread Is quitting an application frowned upon?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Jun 01 '12 at 08:38

Vrashabh Irde

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '12 at 08:39

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You shouldn't do that. Android is designed to manage processes on its own. It will close your application when free memory level becomes low.

User can simply go out of your application by pressing home button.

answered Jun 01 '12 at 08:39

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 01 '12 at 09:07

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Call finish() in every Activity when you move from one Activity to another(before the startActivity() call). That way, there will be no Activity running. And then, whenever you want to exit, simply call finish() on the current Activity too.

answered Jun 01 '12 at 09:07

Kazekage Gaara

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 01 '12 at 10:08

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thank you for yours precious answers, i resolve it my self, i think the right way to impose a navigation model is to add global variables of control like:

boolean comeFromA;
boolean comeFromHome;

and case those variables you do the necessary.

answered Jun 01 '12 at 10:08

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user1529408 · Answer 5 · 2012-11-06T15:25:52.273

I had this problem too, and even though it is apparenetly against the whole idea, I just wanted to nuke the app, as it was causing problems of various sorts that I could not figure it out without breaking another part and it did not matter if it started from scratch everytime. (And I did not want to spend any more days hurting my head with it.)

After trying all of the answers from this question and many similar ones I worked out that doing this in each activity solved it.

@Override protected void onPause(){
    super.onPause();
    super.finish();
    int pid = android.os.Process.myPid();
    android.os.Process.killProcess(pid);
}

(For now at least, as I believed I solved it a few times before).

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 01 '12 at 08:37

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For "Exit application" you can use -

System.exit();

answered Jun 01 '12 at 08:37

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It is not advisable to use it. – Lucifer Jun 01 '12 at 08:50
Doing this is against Android's development paradigm, if you wish to suggest it, you should provide a _very_ good reason for doing so. – Kai Jun 01 '12 at 09:07

How to close an Android Application which contain many activities?

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