I am looking for something similar. Did you find a solution yet? I tried playing with the IActivityController.aidl from the source code. Maybe you have more luck. If so let me know.
Chris On 5 Mrz., 15:46, Slike <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 If this application is no longer active, my 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 aserviceat boot time that > could poll periodically for a list of running app processes. This > implies that thisserviceis 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
