Android: Programmatically open “Recent Apps” dialog

Question

I would like to be able to open the \"Recent Apps\" dialog from my application. This is the dialog that is opened by long-pressing the home button. I am programming for Andr

Answer 1

You cannot access that. However, it isn't super hard to roll your own. The getRecentTasks() method returns a list of recently run apps. Simply take the list and add your own UI to it.

One advantage to this is that the default one, at least on older versions of Android, only shows you about 8 apps. If you roll your own can show as many as you want.