Android - List and kill background process

Android OS is a multitasking operating, there are a lot of running background process, these process make your device will be slower. Android SDK provides set of API allow developer can list all background process and kill (stop) them.
In this post, we will discussing about how listing and kill background process in Android device.

[caption id="attachment_1855" align="alignnone" width="168"] List all android background processes[/caption]

We need two permission are KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES and to GET_TASKS.
Declare two permission as
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<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />
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Declare 2 variable
[sourcecode language="java"]
List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> processes;
ActivityManager amg;
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Register service with Android get all running processes
[sourcecode language="java"]
// using Activity service to list all process
amg = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
// list all running process
processes = amg.getRunningAppProcesses();
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Create MyAdapter class extend BaseAdapter class to populate process's information on ListView as
[sourcecode language="java"]
public class MyAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> processes;
Context context;

public MyAdapter(List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> processes, Context context) {
this.context = context;
this.processes = processes;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
return processes.size();
}

@Override
public Object getItem(int position) {
return processes.get(position);
}

@Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
return processes.get(position).pid;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

Process pro;

if(convertView == null)
{
convertView = new TextView(context);
pro = new Process();
pro.name = (TextView)convertView;

convertView.setTag(pro);
}else
{
pro = (Process)convertView.getTag();
}

pro.name.setText(processes.get(position).processName);

return convertView;
}

class Process
{
public TextView name;
}
}
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Display list of process on listview, display name only (just demo).
[sourcecode language="java"]
adp = new MyAdapter(processes, MainActivity.this);
lst.setAdapter(adp);
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When user longclick on process name, this process will be kill
[sourcecode language="java"]
lst.setOnItemLongClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemLongClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
if (load == 1) {
for (ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo info : processes) {
if (info.processName.equalsIgnoreCase(
((ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo)parent.getItemAtPosition(position)).processName)) {
// kill selected process
android.os.Process.killProcess(info.pid);
android.os.Process.sendSignal(info.pid, android.os.Process.SIGNAL_KILL);
amg.killBackgroundProcesses(info.processName);
}
}
load = 0;
// refresh list of process
skill_Load_Process();
}
return true;
}
});
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You only kill user process, with system process you need a rooted device.

Ok, download sourcecode Here