Check if my App is running in Android

Question

I have an application which involves sound pool - On start of the application all the sounds are loaded after which main screen is loaded.

Now, I would like to check if the application is running - if is not running I would like to reload the application - if it is running I don't want reload the application.

For which I tried the following:

 ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) this.getSystemService( ACTIVITY_SERVICE );
 List<RunningAppProcessInfo> procInfos = activityManager.getRunningAppProcesses();
 for(int i = 0; i < procInfos.size(); i++){
   if(procInfos.get(i).processName.equals("com.me.checkprocess"))
   {
    Log.e("Result", "App is running - Doesn't need to reload");
   }
   else
   {
     Log.e("Result", "App is not running - Needs to reload);
  }
}

This gives the results out perfectly but keeps on checking until procInfos.size is lesser that 0. Until the app gets process com.me.checkprocess true - it is always false? so it always gets into the else part first.

So for example: If the total process is 30. And my process com.me.checkprocess is running @29th. When execute the condition. Until 28th process it is else and @29th process it gets into the condition true.

How to fix this part - I would like to get to else part only after total process is checked?

Let me know!

Answer 1

I think you can just add

break;

below

Log.e("Result", "App is running - Doesn't need to reload");

in if statement

Answer 2

Just put an break inside the for-loop.

 for(...){
    if(){
       break;
    } 
 }

This is definitely not clean, but does the thing you want.

**EDIT 2

I think it would be easier if you just extract this task in a method.

public boolean isProcessRunning(String process) {
    ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) this.getSystemService( ACTIVITY_SERVICE );
    List<RunningAppProcessInfo> procInfos = activityManager.getRunningAppProcesses();
    for(int i = 0; i < procInfos.size(); i++){
        if (procInfos.get(i).processName.equals(process)) {
            return true;
        }  
    }
    return false;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    if (isProcessRunning("my_process")) {
        // Do what you need
    } else {
        // restart your app
    }
}