How do Task Managers kill apps?

Question

First of all I know it\'s bad to use a task manager/killer in Android and all that, but what I was wondering is how do task managers like Advanced Task Killer k

Answer 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.

Answer 2

try this,

android.os.Process.killProcess(pid)

that will work...

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

1- Add to manifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES"/>

2 - In your code

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("adb shell killall com.example.app");

Note : Your app needs to have access to adb shell system/app (root permission)