How do Task Managers kill apps?
Solution 1:
You can send the signal using:
Process.sendSignal(pid, Process.SIGNAL_KILL);
To completely kill the process, it's recommended to call:
ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses(PackageName)
before sending the signal.
Solution 2:
slayton has good answer in this question.I add this detail to his answer:
- when you use ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses(PackageName) , you can not kill foreground process.
I saw these open sources project link in K_Anas'answer to this question:
- github repository
- code.google