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Chuflitas
Chuflitas

Reputation: 115

Close another app from your app?

I want to close another app opened from my app with intent ... On my app i create an intent to open Google Maps, but i want to close this Google Maps with Buton on my app. Is it posible? Thank you guys!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3985

Answers (3)

Morpher
Morpher

Reputation: 1

In the past, for third party Apps not designed for this, I have used:
activity.startActivityForResult(intent, requestCode);
and then done a:
activity.finishActivity(requestCode);
using the same requestCode to stop the Activity. You should receive a resultcode == RESULT_CANCELED to:
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
if you wish to know it finished.
It tends to produce a clunky result though.

Upvotes: 0

Vikasdeep Singh
Vikasdeep Singh

Reputation: 21756

It is not possible to close the another app from your app.

It is ethically not correct and there is no official Android API as well.

Upvotes: 5

Sheikh Hasib
Sheikh Hasib

Reputation: 7493

You can only close the background processes of other apps, you are no longer able to close their main activities.

Declare a permission for that in your AndroidManifest file:

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

APP:

ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager)getSystemService(Activity.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
manager.killBackgroundProcesses(packageName);

I had used this code, that was worked for me.

Hope this can help you, thanks.

Upvotes: 3

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