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[align=center]Android TaskManager (simple)[/align]

What is this: We will create a simple TaskManager ( better: Task-Lister as there is not yet real managing ).

Problems/Questions: post right below...

Difficulty: 2 of 5

What it will look like:
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Description:
0. To read out the running Tasks we need a permission that we have to set in the AndroidManifest.xml of our current Project. If we would not set ('request') that permission our App would crash for security reasons.

The whole AndroidManifest.xml looks like this:


1. We will create one single/simpel function that will handle the whole setup. We call it updateTaskList(). It will grab the Systems IActivityManager. Request all tasks and display some info about them in a List.



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Regards,
plusminus

As usual, cool article. plusminus, can u make some feature for adding any post in profile's bookmark? Else simply not comfortable to find old tutorials.

Hello tum0rc0re,

you mean for every user a kind of favorites

Regards,
plusminus

plusminus wrote:Hello tum0rc0re,

you mean for every user a kind of favorites

Regards,
plusminus

yes

Hello!

I have a question about the IActivityManager. I´d like to have a service always running, like if it was a daemon. I want this service to be inicialized when the emulator is inicialized. I have read over there that I can do this using IActivityManager, but reading your manual, I´m not very sure about that... Do you know how can I solve this problem?

thank you very much!

Hey +-,

Have not looked android ever since the end of last year. Now i am coming back to play with it again. I have been looking around for some way to identify the activities from the users. I am specifically looking for phonebook opening and new contacts been added). Then i ran across this tutorial so i was trying it out but then i ran into problem with IActivityManager.TaskInfo, Eclipse can't find the library for this.

Also where do you find IActivityManager? I was looking over the class and package index and can't not find this at all. All i can see is ActivityManager

HOward

also what's the difference between IActivityManager and ActrivityManager. It'll probably help if i can find out where the documentations for these classes

ActivityManagerNative and IActivityManager manager is removed in 1.0?
how do I achieve the info of running tasks now?

Right now, there are these APIs:

ActivityManager.RecentTaskInfo Information you can retrieve about tasks that the user has most recently started or visited.
ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo Information you can retrieve about a particular Service that is currently running in the system.
ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo Information you can retrieve about a particular task that is currently "running" in the system.

You can get lists of tasks (recent, running and services).
I suppose it's changed in some later release.

wiki wrote:ActivityManagerNative and IActivityManager manager is removed in 1.0?
how do I achieve the info of running tasks now?

I have found a way to port TasksManager to SDK 1.0, we will use ActivityManager, with instance is created from getSystemService(), like below:



you can use 30 or another number, it's the maximum number of running tasks you want to get.

Sorry, I'm not very good in expressing in English!

Hello,

I have been struggling to add permissions to the manifest file for the task manager application.

Apparently

<uses-permission id="android.permission.GET_TASKS"/>

does not work as it causes the following error:

Tag <uses permission> missing required attribute name
(I looked for information about the above error message but found
none)

If I change the entry to something like:

<uses-permission id="android.permission.GET_TASKS"
android:name="GET_TASKS">
</uses-permission>

the error disappears but the application crashes.

I also looked in
http://code.google.com/android/referenc ... mission....

it appears that the name and value of the constant are correct:
GET_TASKS, "android.permission.GET_TASKS"

Any help in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Alex

P.S. I have used the suggestion made in the last post to change the code to use ActvitiyManager

@adonnini
you can try this:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS"/>

hi, plusminus
If I want to show the corresponding app to the foreground by clicked the item in the list,how can i achieve that

hi all.. can anyone please let me know how to capture timestamps opf activities say- how long was an activity foregraound or backraound, what are the sites opened from web, data passed.. etc.