How can Android retrieve the name of the current process?

2 years ago
Ava Mitchell
1 minute

To obtain the current process name, you can utilize the getRunningAppProcesses() method from Android’s ActivityManager class. Here is an example code:

ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> processes = manager.getRunningAppProcesses();

int pid = android.os.Process.myPid();
String processName = "";

for (ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo process : processes) {
    if (process.pid == pid) {
        processName = process.processName;
        break;
    }
}

Log.d("Process Name", processName);

This code snippet will retrieve the PID of the current process, then iterate through all running processes to find the one that matches the PID and get its process name. Lastly, it will print the process name using the Log.d() method.

Please note that the GET_TASKS permission needs to be added in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

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