How to find PID of a package with adb in Android

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This article will introduce how to find PID of a package running via adb command.

1. "adb shell pidof PACKAGE_NAME"

The following command prints the pid of the com.google.android.youtube package. 5862 is the PID of Youtube. But, note that nothing will be output if the app is not running.

$ adb shell pidof com.google.android.youtube
5862

2. "adb shell ps -ef | grep PACKAGE_NAME"

The second way is to use the "ps" command to find the PID of a particular package. 5862 is the PID of Youtube.

$ adb shell ps -ef | grep com.google.android.youtube
u0_a121        5862    291 18 15:03:08 ?    00:00:05 com.google.android.youtube

3. Installed packages list

The following command will output a list of all packages installed on the device.

$ adb shell pidof com.google.android.youtube

package:com.google.android.networkstack.tethering
package:com.android.cts.priv.ctsshim
package:com.google.android.youtube
package:com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.corner
package:com.google.android.ext.services
package:com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.double
package:com.android.providers.telephony
package:com.android.dynsystem
package:com.android.theme.icon.pebble
...

4. 현재 실행 중인 Activity 이름

You can check the name of the Activity that is running with the following command. When the Activity is running, the following log is printed in the events log.

$ adb shell logcat -b events | grep wm_on_re
07-11 14:44:34.246   923   923 I wm_on_resume_called: [152199755,com.android.settings.FallbackHome,RESUME_ACTIVITY]
07-11 14:44:37.114  1045  1045 I wm_on_resume_called: [218164884,com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher.NexusLauncherActivity,RESUME_ACTIVITY]
07-11 14:49:55.441  4941  4941 I wm_on_resume_called: [224219331,com.google.android.apps.youtube.app.WatchWhileActivity,RESUME_ACTIVITY]

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