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How to force stop an app with Android Studio to test background lifecycle mechanism?

So I would like to test what happens with my application when the user puts it to the background and after a while the OS would free up memory thus kill the app, and I would like to re-open it again to see whether my states are restored etc.

I remember (maybe badly) there was a red stop button on the left side of logcat which would kill the app in if you put it to the background. Right? I think it was removed in the recent update of Android Studio maybe?

I'm talking about this area (place of the stop button (was))

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Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

Solution

  • Play/Stop buttons are now placed in Run tab. Since there is the possibility to have multiple logcats, you need to manage the app status in the Run tab.

    Regards.