View activity stack in Android

Question

Is it possible to view the activity stack in Android for debugging purposes?

this is a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2442713/view-the-tasks-activity-stack — andr, Dec 07 '12 at 06:16

Dalmas · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-25T13:53:13.437

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To display the activity stack, run the following command :

adb shell dumpsys activity activities

edited Jul 25 '13 at 13:53

answered Dec 08 '10 at 13:25

Dalmas

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and if you do `adb shell dumpsys activity activities` you'll get a smaller amount of info which includes the running tasks, activities and recent tasks. – Kevin McMahon Nov 16 '12 at 01:39
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Building off this, this piped command is quite handy (from another SO thread) `adb shell dumpsys activity | grep -i run` – loeschg Dec 03 '12 at 21:03
adb shell dumpsys activity | grep -i 'run' | grep -i 'com.example.package' – Gagandeep Singh Jan 08 '16 at 10:02
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is there a way to watch it live and not a snapshot? Things are happening too fast... – Nathan H Apr 06 '16 at 10:40
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@Nathan H - assuming you are on linux, you can use the watch command: `watch -n 1 "adb shell dumpsys activity | grep -i com.yourapp"` – Mr. Bungle May 31 '16 at 10:09
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where do i run this command? – Vikas Pandey Oct 03 '16 at 10:21
@VikasPandey The Terminal / Console. Wherever you would typically run `adb` commands. – Joshua Pinter Jul 04 '22 at 20:03

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