use Runtime.getRuntime.exit(code); On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Mark Carter <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have a legitimate reason for wanting to kill the JVM. > > There appears to be a bug when instantiating the TextToSpeech class. > You can read about it here: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4819330/texttospeech-oninitlistener-oninitint-being-called-continuously > > The listener is repeatedly called (thousands of times until the user > Force Stops the app). I imagine the app slows the system down to a > crawl (because these calls are made on the UI thread). I've tried > various things like calling shutdown on the TextToSpeech class but > none of it helps. > > The only workaround I can think of is to, when it happens, disable TTS > (within the app) in future and then kill the JVM. > > The question is, which approach is better, System.exit() or > Process.kill()? > > On Jan 11, 1:04 pm, Stephan Wiesner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It comes back to designing Apps that do not need to be stopped. > > > > Let me guess, you do not own a Samsung Galaxy S I9000? > > I was constantly switching to the taskmanager trying to kill > > processes, uninstalling all apps that ran in the background, etc until > > the 2.2.1 patch. . . Android might kill a process/app sooner or > > later, but I don't want to lag-wait on a 600$ phone. > > The Galaxy is (was) veryyyy slow when a few apps ran. And it is the > > phone that most of my users own. > > > > Sorry, had to let that out :-) > > > > Greetings from Lucerne, > > Stephan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Regards, Narendra . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

