ActivityManager.KillBackgroundProcesses(String) Method
Definition
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Have the system immediately kill all background processes associated with the given package.
[Android.Runtime.Register("killBackgroundProcesses", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", "GetKillBackgroundProcesses_Ljava_lang_String_Handler")]
[Android.Runtime.RequiresPermission("android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES")]
public virtual void KillBackgroundProcesses (string? packageName);[<Android.Runtime.Register("killBackgroundProcesses", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", "GetKillBackgroundProcesses_Ljava_lang_String_Handler")>]
[<Android.Runtime.RequiresPermission("android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES")>]
abstract member KillBackgroundProcesses : string -> unit
override this.KillBackgroundProcesses : string -> unitParameters
- packageName
- String
The name of the package whose processes are to be killed.
- Attributes
Remarks
Have the system immediately kill all background processes associated with the given package. This is the same as the kernel killing those processes to reclaim memory; the system will take care of restarting these processes in the future as needed.
<p class="note">On devices that run Android 14 or higher, third party applications can only use this API to kill their own processes. </p>
Java documentation for android.app.ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses(java.lang.String).
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