android-recents

I have a working app but I want to add an alternate version of the app's icon that would be associated with the recent apps window. Instead of the icon that appears on the homescreen, the recent apps window would use the other one. The way this can be done is using the new setTaskDescription(...) method in the Activity class. It can be used to set the title of the task and the icon of the task to display in the recent apps screen. This uses the ActivityManager.TaskDescription class to set these values. See an example below. Note that all this code belongs in the activity whose task description

Tester of my app has reported: "The thumbnail of the app in the Recent apps list is not tuned at all. At me it appears either like a homescreen wallpapers (tolikdru: probably, just transparent rect), or like green background of the app screen, but never as a real snapshot of the app." So the behaviour is something like described here . My device is with Android 2.0 so I cannot check and debug the issue (thumbnails in Recent apps are since Android 3.0+). So further research was in a "blind mode". I decided to manually force creation of app thumbnail using onCreateThumbnail() as proposed here .

I'm working on a music app, and I want stop the service when user removes the application from the recent list and not when the first activity is destroyed(because when user clicks back back until app minimizes, in that case first activity is also getting destroyed). Please help. I want stop the service when user removes the application from the recent list. Yes, you can either do that using stopWithTask flag as true for Service in Manifest file. Example: <service android:enabled="true" android:name=".MyService" android:exported="false" android:stopWithTask="true" /> OR If you need event of

Background I'm trying to get app-launched statistics, and on Lollipop it's possible by using the UsageStatsManager class, as such (original post here ): manifest: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS" tools:ignore="ProtectedPermissions"/> opening the activity that will let the user confirm giving you this permission: startActivity(new Intent(Settings.ACTION_USAGE_ACCESS_SETTINGS)); getting the stats, aggregated : private static final String USAGE_STATS_SERVICE ="usagestats"; // Context.USAGE_STATS_SERVICE); ... final UsageStatsManager usageStatsManager=

Background Google has deprecated the function " getRecentTasks " of "ActivityManager" class. Now all it does is to get the list of apps that the current app has opened. I've even written a post about it here on StackOverflow , but I noticed it's impossible. The problem I've made a post about it ( here , and another, similar one created by someone else, here ) and requested to re-consider it, and Google decided to make a new class, that seem to provide a similar functionality (more like statistics, but might also be useful), but I can't find out how to use it. The class is called "