How to find out the running/start time of android application?

Question

Is there anyway to find out the start time of an application?ActivityManager provides pids etc for each application process but doesn't tell for how long process is running.

Answer 1

I don't know wether there's an API for this. But one approach would be to use something like:

String pid = "yourpid";    
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader ( new FileInputStream ( "ls -ld /proc/"+pid)) , 1000 );

To get the start time of your application and the just subtract that with the currenttime.

Might not be the best way, but that's what came to mind. (And I haven't tried it..)

Gl !