How to terminate an application which is launched from my current application in android?

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Suppose I am starting YouTube from my own application then is there any way to terminate the YouTube application programatically from my app.

You can start youtube as activity from your app and finish it when required. — Kanwaljit Singh, Dec 26 '13 at 13:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '13 at 13:09

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You can simply use finish(); to finish that.

answered Dec 26 '13 at 13:09

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I can use finish(), only to terminate the activity of my application; not the YouTube. – AMT Dec 27 '13 at 05:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 26 '13 at 13:11

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Not unless the device is rooted -- it doesn't matter if you sent the intent from your app to launch it, it's not your app but the OS that started the app, and you don't have any permissions to control other apps.

answered Dec 26 '13 at 13:11

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I have the root access. – AMT Dec 27 '13 at 05:17
Then it doesn't matter if you launched the intent from your app. You need to be able to just kill another process, and you can look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7397668/how-to-kill-all-running-applications-in-android – user496854 Dec 27 '13 at 07:05

How to terminate an application which is launched from my current application in android?

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