Stopping an Android app from console

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Is it possible to stop an Android app from the console  Something like   adb stop com my app package   It would speed up our testing process so much  Right now we uninstall install the app each time to make sure the manual test cases start with a clean state

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pkill NAMEofAPP   Non rooted marshmallow  termux  amp  terminal emulator

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In eclipse go to the DDMS perspective and in the devices tab click the process you want to kill under the device you want to kill it on  You then just need to press the stop button and it should kill the process   I m not sure how you d do this from the command line tool but there must be a way  Maybe you do it through the adb shell

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First  put the app into the background  press the device s home button   Then    in a terminal      adb shell am kill com your package

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If all you are looking for is killing a package  pkill package name    should work

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you can use the following from the device console  pm disable com my app package which will kill it  Then use pm enable com my app package so that you can launch it again

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If you target a non-rooted device and or have services in you APK that you don t want to stop as well  the other solutions won t work   To solve this problem  I ve resorted to a broadcast message receiver I ve added to my activity in order to stop it   public class TestActivity extends Activity       private static final String STOP COMMAND    com example TestActivity STOP        private BroadcastReceiver broadcastReceiver   new BroadcastReceiver              Override         public void onReceive Context context  Intent intent                TestActivity this finish                           Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState              other stuff             registerReceiver broadcastReceiver  new IntentFilter STOP COMMAND              That way  you can issue this adb command to stop your activity   adb shell am broadcast -a com example TestActivity STOP

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The clean way of stopping the app is   adb shell am force-stop com my app package   This way you don t have to figure out the process ID

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I tried all answers here on Linux nothing worked for debugging on unrooted device API Level 23  so i found an Alternative for debugging From Developer Options - gt  Apps section - gt  check Do Not keep activities that way when ever you put the app in background it gets killed P S remember to uncheck it after you finished debugging

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adb shell killall -9 com your package name  according to MAC  mandatory access control  you  probably have the permission to kill process which is not started by root   have fun

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If you have access to the application package  then you can install with the -r option and it will kill the process if it is currently running as a side effect  Like this   adb -d install -r MyApp apk   adb -d shell am start -a android intent action MAIN -n com MyCompany MyApp  MyActivity  The -r option preserves the data currently associated with the app  However  if you want a clean slate like you mention you might not want to use that option

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Edit  Long after I wrote this post and it was accepted as the answer  the am force-stop command was implemented by the Android team  as mentioned in this answer   Alternatively  Rather than just stopping the app  since you mention wanting a  clean slate  for each test run  you can use adb shell pm clear com my app package  which will stop the app process and clear out all the stored data for that app     If you re on Linux  adb shell ps   grep com myapp   awk   print  2     xargs adb shell kill  That will only work for devices emulators where you have root immediately upon running a shell   That can probably be refined slightly to call su beforehand   Otherwise  you can do  manually  or I suppose scripted   pc   adb -d shell android   su android   ps android   kill  lt process id from ps output gt

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