How to get all running activities android?

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I was wondering is there a way of getting a list with all running activities ?

i think you ment to ask these http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3304685/how-to-get-the-list-of-running-applications please search — PedroAGSantos, Aug 22 '11 at 06:41
No, there is no way. See: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/57f051efdcfc0c17# — Chakaiko, Dec 13 '11 at 19:49

Tushar Vengurlekar · Answer 1 · 2011-08-22T07:04:08.710

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As far as I understand there will only one activity running at a time that will be your active activity on screen, other activities will be in paused or Stopped state if any.

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answered Aug 22 '11 at 06:38

Tushar Vengurlekar

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That's correct Tushar. Reference: http://developer.android.com/images/activity_lifecycle.png – Indrek Kõue Aug 22 '11 at 06:41
In most cases other activities will be in stopped state. – inazaruk Aug 22 '11 at 06:46

inazaruk · Answer 2 · 2011-08-22T06:45:35.640

No, as far as I know there is no built in way to get a list of running activities (assuming running - means non-destroyed activities).

If you only need a list of activities in your application, you can create some kind of "registrar" mechanism, so each activity registers in onCreate() and unregisters in onDestroy(). This should be some singleton class, because it should automatically be "cleared" if application is killed (as opposed to storing list of active activities in DB).

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