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

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Alex picture Alex · Oct 6, 2010 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

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 activity changes. Is there any way to subscribe and to be notified when this kind of event occurs ? Or there is no possibility and the service should poll from time to time the list of running activities and to check what is the foreground activity ?Not preferable solution...

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Kevin picture Kevin · Jan 29, 2015

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

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