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Android shell get foreground app package name

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This worked for me:

bash

adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -E 'mCurrentFocus' | cut -d '/' -f1 | sed 's/.* //g'

com.facebook.katana

Updated answer for Android Q as mCurrentFocus was no longer working for me:

bash

adb shell dumpsys activity recents | grep 'Recent #0' | cut -d= -f2 | sed 's| .*||' | cut -d '/' -f1

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