I'm creating a home launcher and I want to have a compatibility with the Android 5.0, Lollipop. I want to get a list of recent apps on the launcher.
But since ActivityManager.getRecentTasks()
no longer works in API 21, how can I do this ?
I'm creating a home launcher and I want to have a compatibility with the Android 5.0, Lollipop. I want to get a list of recent apps on the launcher.
But since ActivityManager.getRecentTasks()
no longer works in API 21, how can I do this ?
String topPackageName ;
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
UsageStatsManager mUsageStatsManager = (UsageStatsManager)getSystemService("usagestats");
long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
// We get usage stats for the last 10 seconds
List<UsageStats> stats = mUsageStatsManager.queryUsageStats(UsageStatsManager.INTERVAL_DAILY, time - 1000*10, time);
// Sort the stats by the last time used
if(stats != null) {
SortedMap<Long,UsageStats> mySortedMap = new TreeMap<Long,UsageStats>();
for (UsageStats usageStats : stats) {
mySortedMap.put(usageStats.getLastTimeUsed(),usageStats);
}
if(mySortedMap != null && !mySortedMap.isEmpty()) {
topPackageName = mySortedMap.get(mySortedMap.lastKey()).getPackageName();
}
}
}
Using the UsageStatsManager
, you can get the foreground package names currently running.
Source: How to get recent tasks on Android "L"?
I was troubled with whis, since android has deprecated some api such as getRecentTasks
,getRunningTasks
above API21, they say these method is no longer available to third party app. When i call these api on the device above lollipop, it just return null or my app :(.
Then i found a method to instead of these api, as long as we can get the app'spackagename
, we can do almost anything we want. Android based on linux, i found this AndroidProcesses.It can use /proc
to get android's application pid
and processName
, and the processName
is such ad com.xxx.xxx:remote
. Notice that the front of :
is the packageName :)
After get the packageName
, i think you know what to do. I think we can start a Service
to statistics the most recent used app according to the process running background. The longer the statistical time, the more accurate the results.