android.os.Process.killProcess(pid) did restart the processes again

Question

killprocess method does kill the processes but why the processes restart again and what is suppose to do for not restarting the process again. Here goes my code.

ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List<RunningAppProcessInfo> services = manager.getRunningAppProcesses();
for (RunningAppProcessInfo info : services) {   
    int service1name = info.pid;
    android.os.Process.killProcess(service1name);
}

Thanks for your concern.

Answer 1

Actually the process kill through the killProcess restart the process because android os assume that the process has been shutdown due to crashing and restart it again. What I find is we can use the higher priority am (activity manager) to kill the process. Example can be find here :

try {

                Log.d("Application all process", "killing++");
            String killCommand = 
                        "am force-stop com.nil.android.ssd";
                runAsRoot(new String[]{killCommand},true);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }


    public static void runAsRoot(String[] cmds, boolean shouldExit) {
        try {
            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su");
            DataOutputStream os = new DataOutputStream(p.getOutputStream());
            for (String tmpCmd : cmds) {
                os.writeBytes(tmpCmd + "\n");
            }
            if (shouldExit) {
                os.writeBytes("exit\n");
            }
            os.flush();
        } catch (Exception iOException) {
            iOException.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Answer 2

Stop All running Activitiy and Service, Otherwise, just use android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid()); the process will restart

Answer 3

I have faced the similar problem and It got solved with

   this.finishAffinity();

And this is supported from API level 16.