Question

I know this is a controversial subject and I know my reasons for wanting to quit my app aren’t pure:

• The client wants the app to start from scratch after user has left for 15 minutes.
• The app is in beta, and in order to prevent tiny leaks from crashing the app in the long run, I want to kill the app (until I am sure none such exist)

I currently do a background call 15 minutes after the users leaves the app and I do:

this.finish();
System.exit(0);

This seems to work fine. Does this really kill the process completely? Please no “you shouldn’t quit your app” lectures, I’ve already read through all those.

Answer 1

Just read the documentation:

Causes the VM to stop running and the program to exit. If runFinalizersOnExit(boolean) has been previously invoked with a true argument, then all objects will be properly garbage-collected and finalized first.