Whenever the memory needs to be reclaimed, the process is being killed by Activity Manager Service in killPidsForProcess. I have a back button in my activity window on right corner of the title bar.
I want to kill the activity completely on clicking the close button. Can I reuse the same function and will it have any major effect? Please help me out in this.
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like many others, I want to kill my Android application on "exit" button. Really kill, not just move to background and stop all active code. (I know very well that Android does not like it.) I found Process.killProcess(Process.myPid()); and System.exit(0) which both work fine (I have no problem with activity stack, the "exit" button is in my base Activity.). But there is a problem. When I kill my process and I am back in the shell, I press [Home] button. It shows list of applications that are on the background including my application which has been killed.
Is there a way how to do both: 1) kill the process and 2) remove it from the Android application list that is shown after user presses [Home] button? Thanks for all replays (with the exception of that stupid "you should not exit applications explicitly on Android"
I have a service running in the background. It starts on device boot. Also, I have one activity (that appears in the task launcher) in which I have provided buttons to start and stop the service.
Now, I install the application on the phone and I start the service using this activity (and not on-device boot). As expected the service starts and starts doing its designated task. I no-longer need the activity. So it goes out of sight and may not be required for a long time now.
My question is, now, if the android platform kills this activity, will it kill my service too ? (This is because I see that after few hours, my service is not running anymore.). If this is true, then will the service continue running longer if the service was started on device boot.
I just want to know how detect that the activity or service has been killed by the advanced task killer? I was expecting the onDestroy method to be called, but it doesnt!
My app starts the background service on boot. The activity is not started except from menu. But its name appears in the advanced task killer list. When I try to kill it, it doesnt call the onDestroy method neither the service's.
Is there a way to notify an activity/service of a force-close request right before it gets killed?
I mean when the user hits the force close button in Menu>Settings>Applications>Manage applications>app name>Force Close.
I'm working on establishing a two-way communication between an Activity and a Service which runs in a different process.
Querying the process from the Activity is no big deal. But I want the process to notify the Activity on events. The idea behind it is this: the service runs independently from the actual app. It queries a webserver periodically. If a new task is found on the webserver the process should notify the activity.
I found this thread over at AndDev.org but it doesn't seem to work for me. I've been messing around with BroadcastReceiver. I've implemented an interface which should notify the Activity but the problem is that the listener is always null since the Broadcast from the process is done via Intent, hence the class that extends BroadcastReceiver will be newly instantiated.
How can I establish a 2-way communication? This has to be possible.
When you do a Thread.currentThread().getId(), is the resulting thread id scoped per process or scoped to the current Activity/Service?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedIt is very important that my service stay running until someone with a password stops the service from my UI screen. My app runs great but it is designed to be turned on/off by parents (with a password) on their kids phones. I have managed to make everything work but the problem I'm having is that if the kid uses a task manager to kill my service then my app is useless. I would be grateful to anyone who knows a way to either
1) monitor the service and start it back up automatically if its "killed"
or
2) prevent someone from being able to kill it except from the activity (administration screen) that launched the service. Or both?
I need to made an activity (without layout) that on start check if a service is running. if it is true it starts Activity2, if it false it starts Activity1.
I tried with this code:
CODE:............
Enter code here
But when I check, in the onCreate method, if serviceConnect!=null I receive sometime a NullPointerExcption.
I tried also to insert the operation in the method onCreate in an Async Task:
CODE:............
I am working on a MVC implementation for Android (to be subsequently hosted on SF and/or GC).
It works like this:
Activity (View) <=> Application (Controller) <=> Data (Model) <=> Persistence (DB/Network etc)
The scenario is:
1. Activity launch (main/launcher)
2. Notifies Application about performing a data transaction
3. Upon receipt of data response, controller devices which Activity to launch (or update existing)
4. Application has overridden the method onConfigurationChange
Problem: When the orientation is changed, the Application is notified about onConfigurationChange but:
a) The "current" activity is Destroyed and recreated -- which is fine to some extent b) The new instance which is created is automatically => onCreate, onPause, onStop, onDestroy.... now that's catastrophic.
I created a thread in my activity, and that thread will print out the value of my instance variables in my activity after running for about 10 seconds. I pressed the back key to destroy my activity before the thread prints out the values, and when the thread reaches that line of code, it can still print out the values correctly. That means even though the activity is finished, the java object of the activity is still there. Will the object always be there? Or it is just waiting to be GCed? Or it will be killed only when Android needs memory?
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startActivity(new Intent(Parent.this, Child.class)); And on the child, I have this code on the onCreate function (the if contains more than just true, of course): public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); if (true) { AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null); builder.setTitle("Error"); builder.setMessage("Connection error, please try later.") .show(); finishActivity(0); return;}}
Why is the activity not closing? I get the alert box, but then I have to tap the "back" button to go back.
I have an application, where I need to change the language through a settings menu. Now this part works perfectly, but it doesn't change the language for activities that have gone through onCreate.
I got a TabHost, and 2 tabs in it, from the tabs you can get to settings.
Refreshing the TabHost isn't an issue, as it's fairly small, however both the 2 tabs are quite large views, and having a function to manually update all the strings seem unnecessarily difficult. Is there any way to force the activity to recreate itself and trigger a new onCreate?
I tried having a static function in the tabhost that clears all tabs and recreates them, this refreshes the tab titles, but not the content in the tabs.
In order to keep some native code happy, I need to launch an activity in a new process. Does anyone know how to do this?
I can set the activity's process attribute in the manifest, but this will cause *all* instances of the activity to appear in the *same* process, which I can't have.
I'm willing to use internal APIs for this, and I've found Process.start(), but it's not at all clear how this is supposed to be used.
Suppose my application P started Activity A, and A started Activity B, then the activity stack contained A and B, with B at the top.
After that, I opened other apps by pressing Home button. Suppose after a while, the process of application P is killed by the OS. Then, I press Home button to select application P. At this time, which activity will be brought to the front, Activity A or Activity B?
My application calls Runtime.exec() to launch an executable in a separate process at start up time. I would like this child process to get killed when parent activity exits. Now I can use onDestroy() to handle regular cases, but not "Force quit", shutdowns from DDMS, or kill from the console since those don't run onDestroy(). The addShutdownHandler() does not seem to be invoked in these cases either. Is there any other hook or signal handler that informs my activity that it's about to get terminated? As an alternative is there a way to have the system automatically kill the child process when the parent die?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an application consisting of two activities (call them Display and Preferences) and one service which listens for incoming phonecalls. When it detects one it launches the Display-activity with a delay of 3sec in order to let the PhoneApp launch first. The Display- activity is transparent so the user can still use the PhoneApp as normal (ie answering the call) even though my Display-activity is "on top". So far so good
Now to my problem. Lets say that the Preferences-activity is active when there is an incoming call. The PhoneApp is launched on top of the Preferences-activity as expected. However when the Display-activity is launched the Preferences-activity pops up as well, hiding the PhoneApp. My question is if it is possible to work around this in some way? Since I do not want my Preferences-activity to block the PhoneApp and hence making it impossible for the user to answer the incoming phone call.
I'm trying to catch socket errors (invalid ip, wrong port, etc.).It seems like the ActivityManager is shutting me down before I have time to catch these errors. I really have no idea what's going on here. My splash screen Haus attempts to start the service from a thread, however when the thread get's to the "about to create socket", it simply locks up. It locks up the entire app until the Force Close dialog box arrives.
I have Log.i all the way into the class that makes the connection.04-07 22:15:29.286: INFO/CONNECTION(19053): 4368 04-07 22:15:29.296: INFO/CONNECTION(19053): establishConnection() 04-07 22:15:29.446: INFO/CONNNECTION(19053): about to create socket 04-07 22:15:34.036: INFO/ActivityManager(76): Displayed activity com.scs.haus/.Haus: 8545 ms (total 8545 ms) 04-07 22:15:38.989: WARN/ActivityManager(76): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock! I never see any of these Logs, except of course for the one that tells me I'm inside the method.
I have been practicing with android for a while and read a few books but there is something I can not find anywhere even on the net. I am interesting in the activity manager and how it works. Especially how the activities are pushed on the stack then pulled, etc... I looked everywhere I could for such documents but the only things I could find were overall documents with not much details. I have downloaded the entire source code (cupcake branch) and started to have a look at it but obviously the code is big and very complicated. I was just wondering if an android google engineer somewhere or even somebody else who could let me know where I could find such information (whether it is a document, a link, etc...).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had a prob with app i.e when i am moving to the previous window the control goes to the splash screen of my app because the previous activity is killed by android runtime. how to make the previous activity alive. or how to create activity again and how to access it from present activity.
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy app is made of two activities, A and B. I'm considering this sequence of steps: Activity A is started. A launches B [A is paused, B is running]. B launches a map intent [A and B are both paused now]. Now the user is using the maps application and the system decides it needs more memory. Can the system kill only one of my activities for memory, or will it always kill all activities in a "process" in this situation?
Both activities share some static data like:
class Data {
public static String mName;
public void save() {
// write to file: mName;...................
This appears related to:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3037512/android-application-doesnt-start-from-eclipse/3106897#3106897 Even with the Android 2.2 platform is this still the accepted way to operate the emulator? i.e. 1, 2, 3 start/kill processes as described in the above post? I am having a similar problem on WinXP with Eclipse w/ ADT plugin. Why would the activity not be able to start on the emulator? The computer has 756MB RAM if that could be the problem. The deployment is going along until Eclipse tries to deploy the activity. The emulator starts with the text "ANDROID_" and then eventually just displays the ANDROID logo, though appears to still be running just fine. Any ideas? Thanks. The code was copied from the HelloWorld tutorial. Here is the Eclipse console log including the error messages towards the end:
[2010-06-23 15:43:26 - myHelloWorldProject]
[2010-06-23 15:43:26 - myHelloWorldProject] Android Launch!
[2010-06-23 15:43:26 - myHelloWorldProject] adb is running normally.
[2010-06-23 15:43:27 - myHelloWorldProject] Performing net.concentricllc.HelloWorld.HelloAndroid activity launch
[2010-06-23 15:43:27 - myHelloWorldProject] Automatic Target Mode: using existing emulator 'emulator-5554' running compatible AVD 'myHelloWorldAVD'
[2010-06-23 15:43:27 - myHelloWorldProject] WARNING: Application does not specify an API level requirement!
[2010-06-23 15:43:27 - myHelloWorldProject] Device API version is 8 (Android 2.2)
[2010-06-23 15:43:27 - myHelloWorldProject] Uploading myHelloWorldProject.apk onto device 'emulator-5554'
[2010-06-23 15:43:32 - myHelloWorldProject] Installing myHelloWorldProject.apk...
[2010-06-23 15:48:29 - myHelloWorldProject] Success!
[2010-06-23 15:48:37 - myHelloWorldProject] Starting activity net.concentricllc.HelloWorld.HelloAndroid on device
[2010-06-23 15:51:35 - myHelloWorldProject] Device not ready. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt.
[2010-06-23 15:51:36 - myHelloWorldProject] ActivityManager: android.util.AndroidException: Can't connect to activity manager; is the system running?
[2010-06-23 15:51:38 - myHelloWorldProject] Starting activity net.concentricllc.HelloWorld.HelloAndroid on device
[2010-06-23 15:53:36 - myHelloWorldProject] Device not ready. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt.
[2010-06-23 15:53:36 - myHelloWorldProject] ActivityManager: android.util.AndroidException: Can't connect to activity manager; is the system running?
[2010-06-23 15:53:39 - myHelloWorldProject] Starting activity net.concentricllc.HelloWorld.HelloAndroid on device
[2010-06-23 15:55:41 - myHelloWorldProject] Device not ready. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt.
[2010-06-23 15:55:41 - myHelloWorldProject] ActivityManager: android.util.AndroidException: Can't connect to activity manager; is the system running?
[2010-06-23 15:55:44 - myHelloWorldProject] Starting activity net.concentricllc.HelloWorld.HelloAndroid on device
[2010-06-23 15:57:15 - myHelloWorldProject] Device not ready. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt.
[2010-06-23 15:57:15 - myHelloWorldProject] ActivityManager: android.util.AndroidException: Can't connect to activity manager; is the system running?
[2010-06-23 15:57:18 - myHelloWorldProject] Starting activity net.concentricllc.HelloWorld.HelloAndroid on device
[2010-06-23 15:58:51 - myHelloWorldProject] ActivityManager: Error type 2
[2010-06-23 15:58:52 - myHelloWorldProject] ActivityManager: android.util.AndroidException: Can't connect to activity manager; is the system running?
Activity A is main activity. Whereas Activity B is SearcActivity (Search Manager). Activity B is List Activity, so whatever result comes, result is displayed in the list. Once user clicks on the list, I want to get that list selected item to be returned to ActivityA.What I did. Code...
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if is was still in activity A I could say something like
A.this.mlocListener.removeMyUpdates();
When I am in activity B how can I reference the LocationListener I set up in Activity A
After long running the Media|Player (audio mode) the app I'm developing often crashes w/ the following error: > Process android.process.media (pid 14795) has died. > Killing <my app> because provider com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider is in dying process android.process.media
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