Android: Killing third a app

Question

I've a problem with killing third party apps from my application. Here's the code:

ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) getApplicationContext()
        .getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);

List<RunningAppProcessInfo> appProcesses = activityManager
        .getRunningAppProcesses();
for (RunningAppProcessInfo appProcess : appProcesses) {

    if (appProcess.importance == RunningAppProcessInfo.IMPORTANCE_FOREGROUND) {
        if (appProcess.pkgList[0].equalsIgnoreCase("com.adobe.air")) {
            Log.v("ACTIVITY FOUND", "" + appProcess.pkgList[0]
                    + " - " + appProcess.pid);

            activityManager.killBackgroundProcesses("com.adobe.air");
            activityManager.restartPackage("com.adobe.air");

            android.os.Process.killProcess(appProcess.pid);


        }
    }
}
Log.v("RUN", "----------------------------------");

And in AndroidManifest I added the permissions android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES and android.permission.RESTART_PACKAGES.

In Log I can correctly read the message when the package com.adobe.air is running, but killBackgroundProcesses, restartPackage and KillProcess have no success force closing the app itself. What's wrong?

You must be rooted or a system app to kill other apps. – Simon Oct 14 '13 at 22:28 — Simon, Oct 14 '13 at 22:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '13 at 05:12

You can use Process.killProcess(int pid) to kill processes that have the same UID with your App.
You can use ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses(String packageName),with KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES permission in your manifest(for API >= 8)
or ActivityManager.restartPackage (String packageName)(for API < 8) to kill specified process,except of forground process.

Android: Killing third a app

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