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Class for detecting and eventing the foreground/background state of an Android app - API-level 14+
package com.sjl.util;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Application;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.util.Log;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList;
public class Foreground implements Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks {
public static final long CHECK_DELAY = 500;
public static final String TAG = Foreground.class.getName();
public interface Listener {
public void onBecameForeground();
public void onBecameBackground();
}
private static Foreground instance;
private boolean foreground = false, paused = true;
private Handler handler = new Handler();
private List<Listener> listeners = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<Listener>();
private Runnable check;
/**
* Its not strictly necessary to use this method - _usually_ invoking
* get with a Context gives us a path to retrieve the Application and
* initialise, but sometimes (e.g. in test harness) the ApplicationContext
* is != the Application, and the docs make no guarantees.
*
* @param application
* @return an initialised Foreground instance
*/
public static Foreground init(Application application){
if (instance == null) {
instance = new Foreground();
application.registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(instance);
}
return instance;
}
public static Foreground get(Application application){
if (instance == null) {
init(application);
}
return instance;
}
public static Foreground get(Context ctx){
if (instance == null) {
Context appCtx = ctx.getApplicationContext();
if (appCtx instanceof Application) {
init((Application)appCtx);
}
throw new IllegalStateException("Foreground is not initialised and cannot obtain the Application object");
}
return instance;
}
public static Foreground get(){
if (instance == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException("Foreground is not initialised - invoke at least once with parameterised init/get");
}
return instance;
}
public boolean isForeground(){
return foreground;
}
public boolean isBackground(){
return !foreground;
}
public void addListener(Listener listener){
listeners.add(listener);
}
public void removeListener(Listener listener){
listeners.remove(listener);
}
@Override
public void onActivityResumed(Activity activity) {
paused = false;
boolean wasBackground = !foreground;
foreground = true;
if (check != null)
handler.removeCallbacks(check);
if (wasBackground){
Log.i(TAG, "went foreground");
for (Listener l : listeners) {
try {
l.onBecameForeground();
} catch (Exception exc) {
Log.e(TAG, "Listener threw exception!", exc);
}
}
} else {
Log.i(TAG, "still foreground");
}
}
@Override
public void onActivityPaused(Activity activity) {
paused = true;
if (check != null)
handler.removeCallbacks(check);
handler.postDelayed(check = new Runnable(){
@Override
public void run() {
if (foreground && paused) {
foreground = false;
Log.i(TAG, "went background");
for (Listener l : listeners) {
try {
l.onBecameBackground();
} catch (Exception exc) {
Log.e(TAG, "Listener threw exception!", exc);
}
}
} else {
Log.i(TAG, "still foreground");
}
}
}, CHECK_DELAY);
}
@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Activity activity, Bundle savedInstanceState) {}
@Override
public void onActivityStarted(Activity activity) {}
@Override
public void onActivityStopped(Activity activity) {}
@Override
public void onActivitySaveInstanceState(Activity activity, Bundle outState) {}
@Override
public void onActivityDestroyed(Activity activity) {}
}
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tokudu commented Jul 7, 2016

FYI: this code has an issue with Transparent activities.

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