How Do I Know If an App Is in the Background or Foreground Android?
Contents How Do I Know If an App Is in Foreground or Background? It’s Very Easy to Detect When an Activity Goes Background/Foreground Just by Listening to the...
How do I know if an app is in foreground or background?
It’s very easy to detect when an Activity goes background/foreground just by listening to the lifecycle events, onStop() and onStart() of that Activity.
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The Lifecycle calls will be,
- onCreate()
- onStart() (++activityReferences == 1) (App enters Foreground)
- onResume()
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