Android Restarting the Application

Question

I am trying to restart the app when the crash occurs in android using Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler. Can i restart the app with current activity stack as a new process?? If yes how can i do it?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '12 at 05:18

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One method is to override the onPause method in the activity to kill the app. Like this:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        finish();
    }

answered Jun 05 '12 at 05:18

Zaid Daghestani

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The above code finishes the corresponding activity rite?? I used the following code to kill the process android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid()); – PgmFreek Jun 05 '12 at 05:22
Ah so you're trying to kill the process and start the app again right after the process is killed? – Zaid Daghestani Jun 05 '12 at 05:23
yes... After killing the process i used alarm manager to start the app... But my question is can i start the app with previous process's activity stack? – PgmFreek Jun 05 '12 at 05:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '12 at 05:50

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As far as I know, Once you kill your process, the garbage collector will run, and all objects that belongs to your app, that consumes memory will get freed, that is all objects will have null value. So starting the app with previous process' activity stack trace is not possible.

answered Jun 05 '12 at 05:50

Shrikant Ballal

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Can i get the current process's activity stack before killing it? – PgmFreek Jun 05 '12 at 06:16
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Please see this link, it might help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10043246/retrieving-the-navigation-history-for-the-current-running-application – Shrikant Ballal Jun 05 '12 at 06:23

Android Restarting the Application

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