How to determine if the foreground app is the launcher?

Question

I know how to retrieve information about the foreground app:

public ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo getForegroundTask()
{
    ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) mContext.getSystemService( Activity.ACTIVITY_SERVICE );
    return am.getRunningTasks(1).get(0);
}

public String getForegroundTaskPackageName()
{
    return getForegroundTask().topActivity.getPackageName();
}

My question is, how can I know for sure that the foreground app is the launcher? I can't rely on the package name as it could be anything, like "com.android.launcher" or "com.htc.launcher".

Thanks

Answer 1

You can try to combine your code snippet to determine the package name of the foreground process with a call to PackageManager to get information about the HOME activity, as described here, and compare the results.