how to close android app completely

Question

I created an android application with a logout option in onCreateOptionsMenu. The Logout works perfectly but when I press the back button again it takes me to the previous activity, and when it gets a null value it redirects to login screen. Now my login screen appears again and again. I want to close the app completely when I press the back button but don't know how.

Here is my code to handle the back button press in the login screen:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
        .setTitle("BidNEMO")
        .setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit?")
        .setNegativeButton(android.R.string.no, null)
        .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.yes, new OnClickListener() {
         public void onClick(DialogInterface arg0, int arg1) {
         Main.super.onBackPressed();
         finish();
         }
         }).create().show();
     }

please help guyss..

Answer 1

To Finish an Activity I'm using this code:

public void appExit () {
    this.finish();
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
    intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
    intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    startActivity(intent);
}  //close method

or kill Process with this code:

int pid = android.os.Process.myPid();
android.os.Process.killProcess(pid);

Answer 2

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

I think this is better. How about it ?

Answer 3

Even if it looks ok killing process will cause you headache in future. You can ensure this by following use case:

1. call several activities to populate activities stack
2. call android.os.Process.killProcess(pid);
3. open your application

OBSERVED: Your application opens not from main activity in inconsistent way. This is because Android consider killing of process like crash.

You can find more detailed information here: Is quitting an application frowned upon?

Answer 4

To Quit Application on Button click use this code :

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
startActivity(intent);

Try it..

To kill the complete app and remove it from Runningapp list kill the app through its pid(its nasty)... use this lines before above code.

int pid = android.os.Process.myPid();
android.os.Process.killProcess(pid);

Answer 5

For API 21 and up

finishAndRemoveTask()

You can call this to close the app completely. All activities will finish() and the app is removed from the task list.

Answer 6

For Xamarin Users:

int pid = Android.OS.Process.MyPid();
Android.OS.Process.KillProcess(pid);

put it in your OnDestroy() function.

Edit:

After investigating it thoroughly, I found out that even the above code I wrote does not "Kill" the app totally (deleting it from task manager - "recent apps"). Eventually, after a lot of code tryouts, I managed to figure something out, Overriding "Finish" functions with this code:

public override void Finish()
    {
        if (Android.OS.Build.VERSION.SdkInt >= BuildVersionCodes.Lollipop)
        {
            base.FinishAndRemoveTask();
        }
        else
        {
            base.Finish();
        }
    }

this is the sole solution for that question!