Note that these methods are very much not intended for doing anything except
presenting UI to the user about what is running.  Do not rely on them to
drive logic in your app.  You will ultimately be unhappy.

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Pent <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Does anyone know how to, or if it's even possible to check the
> > (foreground process/top of the activity stack) from a service?
>
> It is possible, see the ActivityManager class functions like
> getRunningAppProcesses().
> getRunningTasks() looks useful but is flakey in my experience e.g.
> when you
> return to the launcher it is sometimes not updated.
>
> Pent
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