Getting info about your currently running activities

At some point you'll find yourself needing to get information about the activities running in a certain task.
There's an easy way of getting a list of running tasks from the activitymanager service.
You can request a maximum number of tasks running on the phone, and by default, the currently active task is returned first.

Once you have that you can get a componentname object by requesting the topactivity from your list.

Here's an example.

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01	// get a list of running processes and iterate through them

02	ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) this

03	.getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);

04

05	// get the info from the currently running task

06	List<ACTIVITYMANAGER.RUNNINGTASKINFO> taskInfo = am.getRunningTasks(1);

07

08	Log.d("current task :", "CURRENT Activity ::"

09	+ taskInfo.get(0).topActivity.getClassName());

10

11	ComponentName componentInfo = taskInfo.get(0).topActivity;

12

13

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14	componentInfo.getPackageName();

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Post: http://qtcstation.com/2011/01/getting-info-about-your-currently-running-activities/