Android - Is there an SDK way to find out the exact amount of memory consumed by a process identified by its pid?

Question

I would like to check the memory consumption of each running processes individually, cat /proc//statm is ok, but opening a shell for each check is time consuming, and maybe not the best way. any advices how to do it with the SDK?

Answer 1

The short answer is "You can do it, but it's very complicated". Have a look at this similar question, where one of the Android software engineers gives a long discussion of the issue.