We can now access app usage history on an Android device with the new android.app.usage API released as part of Android 5.0 APIs.The system collects the usage data on a per-app basis, aggregating the data over daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals For each app, the system records the following data: The last time the … Read more
Received a great answer by someone on Twitter, tested working: try { PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager(); ApplicationInfo applicationInfo = packageManager.getApplicationInfo(context.getPackageName(), 0); AppOpsManager appOpsManager = (AppOpsManager) context.getSystemService(Context.APP_OPS_SERVICE); int mode = appOpsManager.checkOpNoThrow(AppOpsManager.OPSTR_GET_USAGE_STATS, applicationInfo.uid, applicationInfo.packageName); return (mode == AppOpsManager.MODE_ALLOWED); } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) { return false; }
As you wrote that the task is about monitoring 3-rd party applications, there is no solution other than periodically read a list of processes and detecting foreground process. You need a service for this. Unfortunately, Android does not provide means such as broadcast events for foreground process change. The task requires a lot of code … Read more
Special permissions that are granted by the user in the system settings (usage stats access, notification access, …) are handled by AppOpsManager, which was added in Android 4.4. Note that besides user granting you access in the system settings you typically need a permission in the Android manifest (or some component), without that your app … Read more
I think the documentation was just short hand for the Calendar stuff. I don’t think it actually works with just 2014; however I can be wrong. In order to access the actually list of UsageStats, you would need to create a Calendar object with the correct month,day, and year. Exactly how MRK said in the … Read more
The following links should help you figure out how to programmatically determine the data usage per application. Create a network monitor using Android’s TrafficStats class Android Traffic Statistics Inside You will need to implement your code to use the TraficStats API and track the number of bytes sent/received per UID (application).