How to be notified when foreground (top) activity (application) changes

Question

I want to write a service for Android platform that is notified when the current foreground activity changes. Basically the service should do some tasks only when the top ac

Answer 1

You should bind every activity to the service and you will know which activity is running.

try this:

List runningTaskInfos=actvityManager.getRunningTasks(1).get(i).topActivity .getPackageName();

this method will give info of activity's package name which is in foreground..............

Answer 2

AFAIK there are two ways to do that.

1. Start a service and monitor the Activity Stack, you might check it here
2. Use an Accessibility Service, you could find a solution here