继续学习Android，我读了以下内容:
Question: Does the user have a choice to kill the application
unless we put a menu option in to kill it? If no such option exists,
how does the user terminate the application?
Answer: (Romain Guy): The user doesn't, the system handles this automatically. That's what the activity lifecycle (especially onPause/onStop/onDestroy) is for. No matter what you do, do not put a "quit" or "exit" application button. It is useless with Android's application model. This is also contrary to how core applications work.
呵呵，我在Android世界里每走一步都会遇到一些问题=(
显然，你不能在Android中退出应用程序(但Android系统可以随时完全销毁你的应用程序)。这是怎么回事?我开始认为这是不可能写一个应用程序的功能作为“正常的应用程序”-用户可以退出应用程序时，他/她决定这么做。这不应该依靠操作系统来完成。
我正在尝试创建的应用程序不是Android市场的应用程序。它不是一个被大众“广泛使用”的应用程序，它是一个将在非常狭窄的商业领域使用的商业应用程序。
我其实很期待为Android平台开发，因为它解决了Windows Mobile和。net中存在的许多问题。然而，上周对我来说有点令人失望……我希望我不必放弃Android，但它现在看起来不太好=(
有办法让我真的退出应用程序吗?
每次当你通过意图移动到下一页时，使用:
`YourActivityname.this.finish()`;
例子:
Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), SMS.class);
startActivity(intent);
MainActivity.this.finish();
因此，没有活动将在后台运行，当你想退出你的应用程序，使用:
MainActivity.this.finish();
android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid());
System.exit(0);
getParent().finish();
这种退出对我来说就像一个魅力:)
我会考虑阅读Addison-Wesley出版的“Android Wireless Application Development”。我刚刚完成它，它是非常彻底的。
看来你对Android平台有一些基本的误解。一开始我也对Android应用程序的生命周期感到有点沮丧，但在更深入地了解后，我开始真正享受这种方法。这本书将回答你所有的问题，甚至更多。这确实是我为Android新开发者找到的最好的资源。
Also, I think you need to let go of a line-for-line port of the existing app. In order to port your application to the Android platform, some of the application design is going to change. The application-lifecycle used is necessary as mobile devices have very limited resources relative to desktop systems and allows Android devices to run several applications in an orderly and resource-aware fashion. Do some more in depth study of the platform, and I think you will realize that what you are wanting to do is entirely feasible. Best of luck.
顺便说一下，我与艾迪生-卫斯理或与这本书有关的任何个人或组织都没有任何关系。重读了我的帖子后，我觉得我有点像个迷弟。我真的非常非常喜欢它，而且发现它非常有帮助。：）
作为一个Android开发新手，我开始熟悉生命周期等等。作为一名Android用户，我一直讨厌自己无法删除应用程序。
为什么用户应该信任一个应用程序?我们可能认为把应用放在后台是“安全的”，但用户真的安全吗?
我们可能会爱上“新”做事方式的天才，但并不是所有的应用程序都写得很完美，甚至很好。有些可能是恶意的，并试图保持后台进程一直运行。有些可能是出于好意，但很混乱。
我讨厌打开浏览器或谷歌，从我上次离开的地方开始，不得不向后堆叠几十个缓慢的页面，只是为了感觉我有一个干净的开始。用户应该拥有最终的控制权。有多少次技术支持告诉我们“重启我们的机器”或“关闭程序并重新启动”?用户需要感觉他们是在重新启动应用，而不是恢复一个可能会让他们沮丧或给他们带来问题的状态。
你不能指望人们保留一个复杂的环境模型，只是为了使用一个应用程序来完成一些事情。人们觉得自己可以控制铅笔和纸，因为这体现在他们对铅笔和纸的行为和未来行为的体验中。
软件是魔术，它发生在幕后。它的行为规则就像创建它的开发者一样反复无常。
We should try to design appliances that relate to an underlying, almost physical, model that is robust and reliable and truly intuitive to the user. "Killing" an app is something a user can embrace. It's like throwing out a pile of scratch paper and starting over; closing a book and putting it back on the shelf. Magic has its place for dedicated professionals who can invest themselves in a particular world, such as video editing or animation systems. And these users often contribute to the features themselves and so are comfortable with them. But everyday users deserve at least a few really grounded options they can rely on regardless of sophistication level, in my opinion. I'm for an easy way to exit a process completely even if it is not the target model the system aspires to.
我认为关键是没有必要退出应用程序，除非你的软件有问题。Android会在用户不使用该应用且设备需要更多内存时退出该应用。如果你有一个需要在后台运行服务的应用程序，你可能需要一种方法来关闭服务。
For example, Google Listen continues to play podcast when the app is not visible. But there is always the pause button to turn the podcast off when the user is done with it. If I remember correctly, Listen, even puts a shortcut in the notification bar so you can always get to the pause button quickly. Another example is an app like a twitter app for instance which constantly polls a service on the internet. These types of apps should really allow the user to choose how often to poll the server, or whether even to poll in a background thread.
如果你需要在退出时运行的代码，你可以根据需要重写onPause()， onStop()或onDestroy()。
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ActivityLifecycle
