Android supports hooking into the Activity
lifecycle through Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks
but I couldn't find a way to easily hook into the Application
one. Why isn't there a similar interface for the Application
lifecycle?
I want to know if an app is in background/foreground and I don't want to do the count manually (feasible using the Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks
).
I'm developing an Android library and one of the use cases requires knowing if the app which includes the lib is in background/foreground.
I saw that there is an ApplicationLifecycleCallback
interface available in the android.support.test.runner.lifecycle
package (only for testing). Why not exposing something similar within the android.app
package as Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks
?
How to accomplish my use case? How would you implement it?
Any hints/ideas/workarounds would be more than welcome. Thanks a lot!
I want to know if an app is in background/foreground and I don't want to do the count manually (feasible using the Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks).
If that is how you are defining "Application
lifecycle", use ProcessLifecycleOwner
from the Architecture Components.