get name of application when user launch this app

Question

I want to create a service (or a broadcast)in my application that detect when the user select any application in the device. So my service will detect that a new application was started.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

You should use getRunningAppProcesses() to load the list of running apps and check the variation in this list.

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another solution is to analyze logcat output

see first answer to this question