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I have an android app got it from Google play, I can kill this app from my app using:

 KillApplication("Appname");

But this app has a service keep running. I tried to kill this service by:

 KillApplication("Appname.serviceName");

But it doesn't kill the service "serviceName". Any suggestion please?

Edit: I just forgot to write the method "KillApplication"

public void KillApplication(String KillPackage)
{
    ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager)this.getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
    am.killBackgroundProcesses(KillPackage);

}
Majid ff
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  • possible duplicate of [How do Task Manager's kill apps?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6303615/how-do-task-managers-kill-apps) – MarsAtomic Oct 05 '14 at 21:08

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Try this code in mainactivity.

ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses(PackageName);

Add permissions in Manifest file

android:name="android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES"
Aakash Gandhi
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