Receive other applications' usage time data

Question

I'm working on an android project. I need to receive other applications' usage time. I simply just need how many application is running and what are they. How can I access these kinds of data?

I found some articles about receiving another's SQLite DB but I really don't need this.

Have you checked this one https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3304685/how-to-get-the-list-of-running-applications — Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Mar 25 '19 at 13:37
Yes but this code only shows my running app information, i need names of running applications on device currently. — arthurealike, Mar 26 '19 at 06:39

Md. Sabbir Ahmed · Answer 1 · 2019-03-26T09:37:34.720

You may follow the steps:

Retrieve the list of the tasks that are currently running by calling getRunningTasks()
Go through each of the task and retrieve the PackageName
Get AppName from the PackagName
Add the AppName in a list

Here is the implementation:

private List<String> getRunningAppList()
{
    Set<String> appNameList = new HashSet<>();

    PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
    ActivityManager aManager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);

    // Get the list of the tasks that are currently running
    List<ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo> infoList = aManager.getRunningTasks(Integer.MAX_VALUE);

    for (ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo taskInfo : infoList)
    {
        // Get the packageNAme
        String pkgName = taskInfo.topActivity.getPackageName();
        String appName = null;
        // Get the appName
        try
        {
            appName = pm.getApplicationLabel(pm.getApplicationInfo(pkgName,PackageManager.GET_META_DATA)).toString();
        } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        // Adding the appName
        appNameList.add(appName);
    }

    return new ArrayList<>(appNameList);
}

Sabbir, i don't know why you did not respect my opinion. getRunningTasks is deprecated mate. I already checked your comment but it is not useful. — arthurealike, Mar 26 '19 at 10:46
I am extremely sorry. Your comment "Yes but this code only shows my running app information, i need names of running applications on device currently." did not mean that. I know that getRunningTasks() is deprecated but it will work, I think. However, you may use getRunningAppProcesses() method instead of getRunningTasks(Integer.MAX_VALUE). — Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Mar 26 '19 at 11:00
As i said both getRunningTasks() and getRunningAppProcesses() are same. They show only my application's name. Just respect my solution bro. — arthurealike, Mar 26 '19 at 12:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 26 '19 at 12:49

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Using UsageStats, UsageStatsManager is simply the best approach for this topic.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/usage/UsageStats

UsageStats.getLastTimeUsed() informs you about a specific application's last usage time by date format.

edited Mar 26 '19 at 12:49

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