Android: How to auto-restart an application after it has been “force closed”?

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To accomplish this you have to do two things:

  1. Avoid the “Force close” – standard way of application crash.
  2. Setup a restart mechanism when the crash happens anyway.

See below how to do these:

  1. Call Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler() in order to catch all uncaught exception, in which case uncaughtException() method will be called. “Force close” will not appear and the application will be unresponsive, which is not a quite good thing.
    In order to restart your application when it crashed you should do the following :

  2. In the onCreate method, in your main activity initialize a PendingIntent member: 

    Intent intent = PendingIntent.getActivity(
    YourApplication.getInstance().getBaseContext(),
    0,
    new Intent(getIntent()),
    getIntent().getFlags());

Then put the following in your uncaughtException() method: 

AlarmManager mgr = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
mgr.set(AlarmManager.RTC, System.currentTimeMillis() + 2000, intent);
System.exit(2);

You also must call System.exit(), otherwise will not work.
In this way your application will restart after 2 seconds.

Eventually you can set some flag in your intent that the application crashed and in your onCreate() method you can show a dialog “I’m sorry, the application crashed, hope never again :)”.

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