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Exported May 9, 2026
In my testing all IMPL classes had the field "pid". This has worked for me: Just make sure the returned value is not -1. If it is, then parse the output of ps .
What is the correct method to get current foreground process and prevent false positives? UsageStatsManager is the only official API to get the current running app ( see #50 ). Using getRunningTasks(int maxNum) ,...
You can use ActivityManager.getRunningServices(int maxNum) : The documentation states that this is not intended for production. I haven't done much testing with it either. If it doesn't meet your requirements leave a...