Forum Post: RE: exit application

[andrew.may]

Android has the same design guidelines. Your app should take care to behave nicely & persist data when the user switches away from it. Once the user’s switched away, your application’s lifecycle is in the hands of the OS, which might kill it if it wants to free RAM. Designing mobile apps does require a change in thinking about application lifecycles. The good news is that there is good documentation out there about managing lifecycles From: mflanegan [mailto:bounce-mflanegan@community.progress.com] Sent: 02 October 2014 06:23 To: TU.Mobile@community.progress.com Subject: RE: [Technical Users - Mobile] exit application RE: exit application Reply by mflanegan OK that’s fine, I understand that but would this work the same for android? Meyrick Flanegan Developer - Managed Services Email: mflanegan@elcb.co.za ELCB Information Services (Pty) Ltd Customer Service Email elcb@elcb.co.za · www.elcb.co.za E A S T L O N D O N Tel: +27(43) 704 0700 Fax: +27(43) 704 0701 J O H A N N E S B U R G Tel: +27(11) 879 6179 Fax: +27(11) 454 0384 P O R T E L I Z A B E T H Tel: +27(41) 373 0529 Fax: +27(86) 650 0135 Disclaimer From: egarcia [ mailto:bounce-egarcia@community.progress.com ] Sent: 01 October 2014 05:01 PM To: TU.Mobile@community.progress.com Subject: RE: [Technical Users - Mobile] exit application RE: exit application Reply by egarcia From an UI design / OS consistency point of view, applications should (must) not include an option to exit the app. Here are a couple of quotes from Apple's documentation: An iOS app never displays a Close or Quit option. People stop using an app when they switch to another app, return to the Home screen, or put their devices in sleep mode. A: There is no API provided for gracefully terminating an iOS application. A: There is no API provided for gracefully terminating an iOS application. Stop receiving emails on this subject. Flag this post as spam/abuse. Stop receiving emails on this subject. Flag this post as spam/abuse. Business Computer Projects Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 1813992. Registered office: BCP House, 151 Charles Street, Stockport, Cheshire SK1 3JY. Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000. Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Disclaimer: This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or Postmaster@BCPSoftware.com immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails.

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