I believe the class is UsageStatsService.  "adb shell dumpsys usagestats"
will dump its current data.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, clemsongrad <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Dianne,
>
> Could you please shed any light on where i should look in 1.5 for this
> launch information?   Atleast i can research on what is there instead
> of reinventing the wheel.
>
> -Best Regards,
>
> On May 13, 4:00 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is nothing in the SDK for this.  In 1.5 there is now some lauch
> > information maintained by the system, which you can modify to have
> reported
> > if you'd like, though it is pretty rudimentary (for each day, the number
> of
> > times each .apk has been resumed, and the total duration it was resumed).
> > You will need to build your own system to do anything like this though.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:28 PM, clemsongrad <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > To support usability studies on what applications are used, i want to
> > > write a service that logs when an activity is started and also when it
> > > has finished.  This is to understand how the users are using the
> > > device:
> >
> > > One straightforward option is to have the applications modify, to
> > > write this out.  But this is tedious having to modify all applications
> > > and will not work esp with third party or built in applications.
> >
> > > Is there any alternatives that makes this simpler and easier?
> >
> > > BTW: Looking at the android framework source ActivityManagerNative
> > > seems to be invoking a Binder interface when an Activity is started
> > > and finished.  Any information on what this service is?   Is this
> > > something i can tap into?
> >
> > > Apologizes if i am looking at the wrong code, my first foray in to the
> > > framework code.
> >
> > > Any information or thoughts is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > > Thx!
> >
> > --
> > Dianne Hackborn
> > Android framework engineer
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see
> and
> > answer them.
> >
>


-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
[email protected]

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
answer them.

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