Re: [android-developers] Re: noob developer, application keeps restarting

I agree it may be dirty and icky, but its presumptuous to state that "You should "absolutely *should not* be doing this." There are many real-world situations where a program must be exited imediately or this call would not have been made available in the Android API. Perhaps you all don't remember the programmer that got sued for a bug that killed a patient with too much radiation because he didn't stop the program. There are many other non life-threatening cases where the right thing to do is to just halt the program.  What would you do if you had zombie-game that users start running on some really slow devices and the frame-rate grinds down to 2 fps and your zombies look, well too dead, and then your app starts getting really bad ratings???

On Friday, May 25, 2012 12:08:48 AM UTC-6, Kristopher Micinski wrote:

Because it's dirty, kills resources, goes against the application
lifecycle, is a dangerous way of destroying things without finalizing
things first, ... basically, for the same reasons you don't want to
unplug your machine while it's running...

kris

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Yan  wrote:
> Why?
>
> On May 21, 10:07 am, Kristopher Micinski
> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Yan wrote:
>> > An easier but less graceful way is just to System.exit(0) in the
>> > onPause then start from scratch every time...
>>
>> You absolutely *should not* be doing this.
>>
>> kris

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