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How can I get my Android application to terminate properly?

I have an Android application that writes data to the SD card. I want to be able to see this data from my PC, when I connect via a USB cable. Unfortunately the application remains in the background when I quit it, and some system buffers do not get flushed properly (or at least I think that is what happens). As a result I cannot see the data properly, unless I manually force the application to stop. Then the data becomes visible on the PC, as if by magic.

I would like to have the program terminate automatically when I quit the main activity, or better still I would like to find some way to flush the system buffers. Does anyone have any ideas?

Solution

  • Do you close your file? Best would be in onPause() probably.

    Check the activity lifecycle in http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html

    EDIT:

    If you really feel you need to kill your process, you can use

    android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid());

    or

    System.exit(n)