Is it possible to make a service running in backgroud to be notified when an arbritary activity/application is started and ended by a user? I want to use it to log how often and for how long different applications are used in Android.
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Do you want to track usages of your own application, or other applications such as Facebook, Twitter etc? – Jimmy Jan 31 '12 at 21:23
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In this case you might need a receiver not a Service – Pankaj Feb 25 '12 at 12:48
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As stated in question & answer posted bellow:
There is no solution other than periodically read a list of processes and detecting foreground process. You need a service for this. Unfortunately, Android does not provide means such as broadcast events for foreground process change.
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Have a look at ActivityManager.getRunningTasks(). Unfortunately you would need to be running continuously to see tasks starting and stopping. I'm not aware of any event you can listen for.
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