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How to exit from an android app?

I've just read that you can exit an android application by simply calling:

finish();

However this is not the case! When I do this I get the following errors:

PackageInstallationReciever Remove /data/local/tmp/com._____.apk Fail!
AndroidRuntime Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
AndroidRuntime java.lang.NullPointerException
AndroidRuntime     at android.....
dalvikvm Unable to open stack trace file '/data/anr/traces.txt': Permission denied

So what is the proper way to force an application to exit? For the record, I'm calling it from a menu item but it doesn't seem to matter!

Solution

  • You might want to look at Quitting an application - is that frowned upon? thread here in SO.