How to detect running app using ADB command

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I have one Android Device running Jelly Bean OS   Is there any way to detect the process is running or not using ADB command if i know the package name

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No need to use grep  ps in Android can filter by COMM value  last 15 characters of the package name in case of java app   Let s say we want to check if com android phone is running   adb shell ps m android phone USER     PID   PPID  VSIZE  RSS     WCHAN    PC         NAME radio     1389  277   515960 33964 ffffffff 4024c270 S com android phone   Filtering by COMM value option has been removed from ps in Android 7 0  To check for a running process by name in Android 7 0 you can use pidof command   adb shell pidof com android phone   It returns the PID if such process was found or an empty string otherwise

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If you want to directly get the package name of the current app in focus  use this adb command -   adb shell dumpsys window windows   grep -E  mFocusedApp   cut -d   -f 1   cut -d     -f 7   Extra info from the result of the adb command is removed using the cut command  Original solution from here

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Try   adb shell pidof  lt myPackageName gt    Standard output will be empty if the Application is not running  Otherwise  it will output the PID

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I just noticed that top is available in adb  so you can do things like    adb shell   top -m 5   to monitor the top five CPU hogging processes   Or    adb shell top -m 5 -s cpu -n 20  tee top log   to record this for one minute and collect the output to a file on your computer

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Alternatively  you could go with pgrep or Process Grep   Busybox is needed   You could do a adb shell pgrep com example app and it would display just the process Id   As a suggestion  since Android is Linux  you can use most basic Linux commands with adb shell to navigate control around   D

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You can use  adb shell ps   grep apps   awk   print  9     to produce an output like   com google process gapps com google android apps uploader com google android apps plus com google android apps maps com google android apps maps GoogleLocationService com google android apps maps FriendService com google android apps maps LocationFriendService   adb shell ps returns a list of all running processes on the android device  grep apps searches for any row with contains  apps   as you can see above they are all com google android APPS  or GAPPS  awk extracts the 9th column which in this case is the package name   To search for a particular package use  adb shell ps   grep PACKAGE NAME HERE   awk   print  9     i e adb shell ps   grep com we7 player   awk   print  9    If it is running the name will appear  if not there will be no result returned

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