Android app doesn’t call “onDestroy()” when killed (ICS)

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As stated in the documentation here, there is no guarantee that onDestroy() will ever be called. Instead, use onPause() to do the things you want to do whenever the app moves into the background, and leave only that code in onDestroy() that you want run when your app is killed.

EDIT:

From your comments, it seems that you want to run some code whenever your app goes into the background, but not if it went into the background because you launched an intent. AFAIK, there is no method in Android that handles this by default, but you can use something like this:

Have a boolean like:

boolean usedIntent = false;

Now before using an intent, set the boolean to true. Now in your onPause(), move the code for the intent case into an if block like this one:

if(usedIntent)
{
//Your code
}

Finally, in your onResume(), set the boolean to false again so that it can deal with your app being moved into the background by a non intent means properly.

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