Hi, Question: How do I track changes in the list of running application processes most effectively?
A little explanation: I'm new to Android development and I have a question about keeping track of other application's statuses. The application I'm writing will contain a list with names of "known" applications. As soon as one of these applications is started, my app should be aware of that. If this application is no longer active, my app should know it as well. So far I've done a little experiment to get a simple list of running application processes, a simple Activity that shows the output of "activityManager.getRunningAppProcesses()". What I want is a more automated approach; my application isn't even supposed to have a GUI. - I've been experimenting with starting a service at boot time that could poll periodically for a list of running app processes. This implies that this service is running at all times! I'd suppose that this approach is too inefficient, causing way too much overhead and power consumption? - I've been looking for an event-based model that sends an event to all its listeners as soon as the list of running apps has changed. But I couldn't find anything like that (yet)? - I've been thinking about Intents: the applications I want to track are all of the same type (e.g. video players). But some of them may be closed source and/or pass Intents explicitly. So I've got no idea if it's even possible to do anything this way... - ... [ any other approaches?] ... Thx for your advice! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
