Question

How to stop application from running in background in android?
I want my application to start fresh everytime it loads. How to do it programatically.

Answer 1

Override onStop method of your activity:

@Override
public void onStop(){
    super.onStop();
    finish();
}

But I think it’s a bad idea to restart your app each time. It’s better to override onStart method, and handle “restart” here.

Actually, your app doesn’t “run” in background. Android OS keeps it in memory, or saves state of your activity to device (and then you can load it, using savedInstanceState param in onCreate method).