Restarting your application automatically

Question

I need a litle guidance about my thoughts on android development. Is it possible to restart my appication on a specific point of my code? I also need to reuse some values that my application derive? I am looking at alarm manager and sharedpreferences... Am I on the right way, to implement that?

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`Intent` your package from where you want to start you activity [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2741857/launch-activities-from-different-package) — Iamat8, Sep 10 '15 at 08:52

Ashish Shukla · Answer 1 · 2015-09-10T09:00:17.843

Yes you are on right track ,you can restart your android application at any point you want and store your data either in Sharedprefernces if its a small amount of data but if the data is large use Sqlite instead.

AlarmManager will help you in schedule your tasks for future like restart app at specific time etc.

Code for restarting app

Intent intent = getBaseContext().getPackageManager()
         .getLaunchIntentForPackage( getBaseContext().getPackageName() );
intent .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(intent);

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 10 '15 at 13:50

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Intent          restartIntent   = getContext().getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage(getContext().getPackageName());
PendingIntent   pendingIntent   = PendingIntent.getActivity(getContext(), 0, restartIntent, Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
AlarmManager    alarmManager    = (AlarmManager)context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC, System.currentTimeMillis() + APPLICATION_RESTART_TIMEOUT, pendingIntent);

edited Sep 10 '15 at 13:50

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this code starts app after APPLICATION_RESTART_TIMEOUT. You should close your app before APPLICATION_RESTART_TIMEOUT expire – Vladimir Eremeev Sep 10 '15 at 09:47

Restarting your application automatically

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