Android won't quit

[J. Landman Gay]

It could be solved if we had suspend and resume messages but I heard this 
is difficult to implement on Android.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On June 7, 2018 12:49:10 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> This is not an easy thing to fix and can be broken easily. The app in 
> memory is not corrupt but the restart of the app is probably exposing an LC 
> engine bug.
>
> Details for geeks...
>
> To handle the Android unique app restart protocol: After you "Quit" or the 
> app gets hibernated so to speak by the OS, the state of Activities, 
> Fragments and Views will be saved. When returning back to the application , 
> the system will start the process again, recreate the top activity. and you 
> will get a Bundle with the stored state. This is where thing can go 
> sideways,  the whole process was killed. So any Singletons (or any 
> “application scope” objects), any temporary data, any data stored in 
> “retained Fragments” ... Everything will be in a state as if the app was 
> just launched , with one big difference , the state is restored and the app 
> is at the point where you left the app. If the Activity you are depending 
> on has some shared Object, or some injected dependency where you keep 
> recent data then most likely the application will just crash on a 
> NullPointerException because it didn’t expect the data to be null.
>
> The Android OS is designed not to allow apps to be "stopped/killed" like 
> desktop apps. That is why in the Application Manager it's call "Force 
> stop". To work around the OS design (limitation?) LC could initiate the 
> various activities with startActivityForResult(), and have the LC "quit" 
> send back a result which tells the parent activity to finish(). That 
> activity could then send the same result as part of its onDestroy(), which 
> would cascade back to the main activity and result in no running 
> activities, which should cause the app to close. But this is fighting the 
> basic design of the Android OS and might break with a future OS upgrade.
>
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf 
> Of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 12:26 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Cc: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
> Subject: Re: Android won't quit
>
> Argh.  I thought I solved in this in my app. But LO... it appears to 
> quit... but is actually not quitting... it leaves  a "corrupt" stack on the 
> phone (android) and when you try to restart it, it opens to splash screen 
> stack, but no messages are firing.  It is "stuck" ; does not appear to user 
> as "crashed" ; but on is dead-on-arrival - just the card 1 of the launcher 
> stack app, with logo.
>
> Good think you caught this. I will have to let users on android force stop, 
> as the only choice.
>
> BR
>
> J. Landman Gay
>
>    I want to wipe the app completely so that on next launch I can
>    reinitialize everything.
>
>
>
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