How can I kill a remote process for my app?

Question

Our app uses this method to kill remote process; but can any other plan can be used? I need this because getRunningAppProcesses() may not work.

public void killChildProcess() {
    ActivityManager actvityManager = (ActivityManager)this.getSystemService( Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE );
    List<RunningAppProcessInfo> procInfos = actvityManager.getRunningAppProcesses();

    for(RunningAppProcessInfo procInfo : procInfos) {
        if (procInfo.processName != null && 
                procInfo.processName.equals("package:remote")) {

            Process.killProcess(procInfo.pid);
        }
    }
}

`Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ps")` would return the `ps` list of running processes, you could then lookup the pid for the process you wish to kill. — Matt Clark, Aug 04 '15 at 04:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '15 at 04:51

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As suggested by @Matt Clark you can do like this

Long PID=Runtime.getRuntime()
  .exec("ps -ef|grep 'package:remote'| awk '{ if(NR==2) print ($2)}'")

Runtime.getRuntime.exec("kill -9 "+PID);

answered Aug 04 '15 at 04:51

smali

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thks for your help, maybe i can get my process info by "ps packagename:remote" and get process id /name. it could be more simple? – user3131942 Aug 04 '15 at 06:16
ps will just not return only id/name you need to parse the values – smali Aug 04 '15 at 09:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '20 at 09:28

Check the process name contains :remote then go ahead.

    @Override
    public void killRemoteProcess() {
        ActivityManager activityManager =  (ActivityManager) getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
        List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> runningAppProcesses = activityManager.getRunningAppProcesses();

        for (ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo appProcessInfo: runningAppProcesses) {
            if (appProcessInfo.processName.contains(getApplicationInfo().processName + ":remote")) {
                Log.d("Killing active process: " + getApplicationInfo().processName + ":remote");
                android.os.Process.killProcess(appProcessInfo.pid);
            }
        }
    }

How can I kill a remote process for my app?

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