android - navigator.app.exitApp() not working - timers still running

[elsigh]

In my app, we call navigator.app.exitApp() if the user hits the back button on the home screen.

While it does "close" our app and take the user back to the home screen, our timers are still running and we're making network requests, etc..

My expectation is that exitApp is the equivalent for force stop or something and that it should destroy our Activity.

Reality? ;)

[Simon MacDonald]

navigator.app.exitApp() calls Activity.finish() so you app should be
completely taken down.

Repo?

Simon Mac Donald
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[elsigh]

If you download Twist (1.0.35) from the Google Play Store right now (before an update this afternoon) and launch, then hit the back button (and monitor adb logcat | grep Console) you'll see our app continuing to make requests for an endpoint titled /notifications/get.

I can also send you an APK.

[Will]

chronophile 11 hours ago

How to safely exit a phonegap app in android?

Hi I'm trying to get my app in cordova 2.1 to kill after a button is clicked in the app's main menu.
In JS I tried using

navigator.app.exitApp();

but the app still appears to be running in the background.I read that you can change a "exit-on-suspend" variable in thge config file, but I would still like to suspend normally with the home button.

Also. I heard that putting in a button killing the app is frowned upon and may get your app rejected. Why is this? What else would I do if I wanted to close the app and stop it from running in the background?

thanks

Will

[Chris Haley]

Simon,

What elsigh (above) and Will (below) described is true.  It is not the expected result, but it is what is happening.  Timers continue to run in the background after navigator.app.exitApp() has been called.  I'm going to try to see if killing the timer right before exitApp() is called solves the problem.  I've verified this as my app uses a timer to search for images and upload them to a server and they continue to flood in even after the app has been closed.

thanks,

~Chris

[Simon MacDonald]

Have you tried setting:

    super.setBooleanProperty("keepRunning", false);

in your onCreate method?

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[Chris Haley]

No I haven't -- that's the first I've seen that.  What's the scope of that property and what all does it affect?

[Simon MacDonald]

It stops the JS from running when your app is put into the background.

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[Chris Haley]

Wouldn't that be used for it I wanted to background (press home) the app?  I want the JS to keep running if it's backgrounded but not if it's exited completely.

[Chris Haley]

Any word on this?  I currently have the app ask if the user wants to quit.  If they confirm that they do want to quit, I call clearInterval() on the timer ID and then navigator.app.exitApp().  That keeps the javascript from running when it exits.  However, I still don't feel like it's not fully quitting.  I can go into the app manager and click, "Force close" which I would think should not be enabled if the app is not running.