Saturday, March 13, 2010

Why dont Android applications provide an "Exit" option?

Programmer Question

Is there something in the Android developer guidelines that disuadea developers from providing the option to "exit" (stop running) an application from within the application itself?



I love multitasking and all but it's not clear to me why:




  • the vast majority of apps don't have their own Exit functions and hence just keep running forever

  • don't give you a choice about running when you turn on the phone - they just do by default



Both of these things lead to memory usage constantly increasing and your device running with this performance burden all of the time despite the fact that you may only want certain apps to run some of the time.



Am I missing something?



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