How to make simulate time passing in phone

Question

I want to test if a service will still run after lets say, 5 days has passed. I do not want to just set the phone's time, I want the phone to think that the time has passed so that it will get rid of background apps, etc.

How do I do that in adb?

but, what `5 days has passed` in programming means? if it is exactly 5 natural days, then we can not fake. if it is not, what exactly you want. — Jiang YD, Jan 18 '16 at 08:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 18 '16 at 08:46

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I want the phone to think that the time has passed so that it will get rid of background apps, etc.

Android can actually finish your application only and not other app.
To get rid of background apps, you can use Task Manager but that's what manual process.
If you have background service running over 5 days, you can actually stop your service, use AlarmManager for it.

As your question is not properly clarified, there could be multiple solution to your problem, of which i have tried to address.

answered Jan 18 '16 at 08:46

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That is not the point. I want to speed up the time so that Android kills inactive apps. – theAnonymous Jan 18 '16 at 08:51
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Most likely, this can not be achieved, as in Android system, it kills app if running in background and system is in resource crunch. – Zoombie Jan 18 '16 at 08:53
Is there a way to trigger it by adb? – theAnonymous Jan 18 '16 at 08:57
you could try with: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22400859/dont-keep-activities-what-is-it-for – Rafal Zawadzki Jan 18 '16 at 08:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '16 at 08:57

I use the following code in my app to get the current date:

    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    System.out.println("Current time => " + c.getTime());

    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    AndroidDate = df.format(c.getTime());

Now with that said, all you can do is set the AndroidExpiryDate (string) and set your own date of expiry:

AndroidExpiryDate = "2016-02-28"

Then you can just compare current date (AndroidDate) with expiry date (AndroidExpiryDate ) using if statement:

if ("AndroidDate".equals("AndroidExpiryDate") )
{
    //code to get rid of background app
}

My intention was to test if the app/service will survive after Android kills background apps and services. — theAnonymous, Jan 18 '16 at 08:58

How to make simulate time passing in phone

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