Re: [android-developers] Is there some APIs to monitor the RAM/CPU utilized by another app?

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Jim Graham <spooky130u@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'm confused now (so what's new?)....  What, then, are all of the
> apps that list system memory usage, both total and per app, doing to
> get the information?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2298208/how-to-discover-memory-usage-of-my-application-in-android/2299813#2299813

Apps are probably using various Linux values out of /proc/ and hoping
they are doing it correctly, that the results will be available on all
devices, etc. This is not part of the Android SDK and there are no
guarantees here.

> Same question for cpu usage (total and per app)....

See above /proc/ note.

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