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Shabina Rayan
Shabina Rayan

Reputation: 419

Get PID from all running applications (Android)

I am creating an Android application that should be able to access the PID's of other applications running on the device (like Google Maps, Calculator, etc.). I have the following code running every second to pull the running processes on the Android device. However, when I run it, it is only showing me info regarding my application, even though 3 other applications are also running. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the PID of other applications running on an Android device?

try {
     Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ps");
     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
     while(true) {
         String line = in.readLine();
         System.out.println(line);
         if ( line == null ) break;
     }
} 
catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1790

Answers (1)

Rajesh N
Rajesh N

Reputation: 6673

You can get it using Activity Manager

ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> pids = am.getRunningAppProcesses();
int processid = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < pids.size(); i++) {
    ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo info = pids.get(i);
   System.out.println(info.pid);
}

Upvotes: 1

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