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

Along with this, this topic takes the one of the top in the Android
tag on StackOverflow,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2033914/quitting-an-application-is-that-frowned-upon/2034238#2034238

kris

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Kristopher Micinski
<krismicinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Yan <yinoryan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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???
>>
>
> No.  This is universally a hack, and you should not be doing this ever.
>
> There is always a better way, and your arguments are fundamentally
> flawed for a number of reasons:
>  -- If you are running a radiation emitting device from an android
> app, then you are using the system from something beyond its means
> anyway, you should be modifying the firmware and using something like
> a real time system, as the scheduler could be equally untrusted, all
> you're doing it is pushing it further.
>  -- Your second example doesn't make any sense either, in this case
> you could easily check hardware, and simply call a finish() on the
> view, there's no need to use System.exit().
>
> So no, this is universally a sign that the programmer took the cheap,
> unprofessional way out.
>
> kris

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