How do i tell my application to close?

Question

I have just discovered the nifty unhandled exception handler for cocoa-touch. Now that i can gracefully notify the user about any unhandled exceptions that might crash my application. I'd like to shut down my application after notifying the user that a crash has occured. Does anyone know how to shut down an application programmatically?

Answer 1

You can call [[UIApplication sharedApplication] terminate]; - that won't build the screenshot Springboard uses to animate the application's exit, though, so the screen will just go black until the icons move in. There doesn't seem to be a published way to do this; the UIApplication header doesn't even mention the -terminate method, so you may just not be meant to do it at all.

Answer 2

Apple's documentation says there is no "normal" way to shut down. In your case - an unhandled exception - immediate termination makes sense anyway.

Answer 3

exit(0);

will do the trick...