View activity stack in Android

Question

Is it possible to view the activity stack in Android for debugging purposes?

Solution

To display the activity stack, run the following command :

adb shell dumpsys activity activities

Comments

[Kevin McMahon]

and if you do adb shell dumpsys activity activities you'll get a smaller amount of info which includes the running tasks, activities and recent tasks.

[loeschg]

Building off this, this piped command is quite handy (from another SO thread) adb shell dumpsys activity | grep -i run

[Gagandeep Singh]

adb shell dumpsys activity | grep -i 'run' | grep -i 'com.example.package'

[Nathan H]

is there a way to watch it live and not a snapshot? Things are happening too fast...

[Mr. Bungle]

@Nathan H - assuming you are on linux, you can use the watch command: watch -n 1 "adb shell dumpsys activity | grep -i com.yourapp"

[Vikas Pandey]

where do i run this command?