onDestroy() won't get called after this.finish()

Question

I\'m wondering why the Motorola Milestone with 2.1-update1 behaves differently from the Emulator or e.g. the Nexus One. I am trying to exit my app with:

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Answer 1

If the user exits to the home screen this does not need to mean that the app should be exited. In most of the time it will give a better user experience if the app just goes to the background. Try to rely on saveInstanceState and onPause.

Exiting a app is seen as bad practice in the android world, featuring a phone with a good system for true multitouch can get better user experience if the app keeps running after pressing the home screen.