Question

here in my case, a app invokes a service and the service will inturn starts an activity. My problem here is to get the app package which invokes that service.

Can anybody help me to solve this ?

Answer 1

I found this directly from android source and it works fine 🙂

final ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager)
                getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);

        final List<ActivityManager.RecentTaskInfo> recentTasks =
                am.getRecentTasks(3, ActivityManager.RECENT_IGNORE_UNAVAILABLE);
        for (int i = 0, index = 0; i < 3 && (index < 3); ++i) {
            final ActivityManager.RecentTaskInfo recentInfo = recentTasks.get(i);

            Intent intent = new Intent( recentInfo.baseIntent);
            if ( recentInfo.origActivity != null) {
                intent.setComponent( recentInfo.origActivity);
            }

            final PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
            final ResolveInfo resolveInfo = pm.resolveActivity(intent, 0);
            final ActivityInfo info = resolveInfo.activityInfo;
            final String title = info.loadLabel(pm).toString();

            Log.d("hello","  "+title+" "+info.packageName);
           final ImageView iv = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
           iv.setImageDrawable(info.loadIcon(pm));
                ++index;
            }