![]() Running the app on a rooted device does not make difference. AnotherMonitor running on devices with Android 8.0 will only show memory usage, but not total CPU usage or CPU usage for any process, including the own app process. Until now it was possible to at least get process info of the process running AnotherMonitor and total CPU usage. In Android 8.0 Google has further restricted access to the proc file system. Retrieving processes info since Android Oreo 8.0 (API 26, August 2017) Star this Android issue to push Google to implement an alternative API. More info on File system changes in Android Nougat - Stack Overflow. AnotherMonitor running on devices with Android 7.0 will only show total CPU usage, AnotherMonitor CPU usage and memory usage, but not CPU usage for other processes. This means that since this new API level it is not possible anymore to retrieve processes info. ![]() In Android 7.0 Google once again has made undocumented changes and has significantly restricted access to the proc file system. Retrieving processes info since Android Nougat 7.0 (API 24, August 2016) The drawback of this is that for some processes there is no way to retrieve the app name nor the icon and instead only the long package name is shown. For devices with Android 5.1 AnotherMonitor now uses the unofficial AndroidProcesses library to retrieve the processes list. Thankfully the community at Stack Overflow came out with some satisfying solution. This change has not been documented anywhere on the official documentation nor an alternative way to retrieve the list has been provided. Retrieving processes info since Android Lollipop 5.1 (API 22, March 2015)įor devices running Android 5.1.1 it is not possible any more to retrieve the processes list with ActivityManager.getRunningAppProcesses(). It will show an average of all the device's cores. The app does not support showing values for a specific core in multi-core devices. Find more information about this on Calculating CPU usage of a process in Linux - Stack Overflow. This is implemented on ServiceReader.class. ![]() In order to get the CPU usage the app does NOT make use of the top command from Linux but instead it parses /proc/stat and rest of process folders from the procfs file system and work out the calculations with the user and system time. Then it can monitor and record the CPU and memory usage of other applications on the foreground.ĪnotherMonitor adds a Record and Close button to the AnotherMonitor entry on the notification drawer. When AnotherMonitor is running on the background it consumes little resources.
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