Automate closing of applications in Android

Question

I\'ve read a lot of documentation and other posts about closing other apps. I know the documentation says Android isn\'t designed that way. Android wants to hibernate an app

Answer 1

What you said is perfectly possible. Just get the ActivityManager system service and then use .restartPackage() (deprecated) or .killBackgroundProcesses().

ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService("activity");
activityManager.restartPackage(packageName);

You will need:

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