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A few months back I started developing an app that read incoming sms messages and saved them in a db.

A few days ago I went to revisit the app and had a quick look in the db where I discovered the app was still recording my texts!?!

I can't find any mention of my app running on the android apps option under settings or in advanced task killer.

How can I find out if it's running or not? It's bizarre!

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  • Being rather development related, this question IMHO is better fitted on stackoverflow.com. – Izzy Feb 23 '13 at 13:45
  • Izzy I agree, however I started out with best intentions of just finding out a list of apps – Russ Wheeler Feb 23 '13 at 14:46
  • Russ, I never implied bad intentions! But the name of this site is too often misunderstood to be related to Android development (which it is not, see our [FAQ]). So most OT questions are asked unaware of that, and we simply give a friendly hint. -- Looks like your accepted answer also proves the direction :) – Izzy Feb 23 '13 at 17:35
  • Sorry, hope my comment didn't come across rude, I meant to agree with you. I was originally hoping for some option somewhere in the os that listed all apps. Thanks again – Russ Wheeler Feb 24 '13 at 18:34
  • Don't worry, I understood this ;) – Izzy Feb 24 '13 at 19:39
  • Settings > Apps then swipe left to see the list of running apps. – ale Sep 13 '13 at 13:32

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I had a similar incidence, in my case i left a service open. Please check if any service related, is open ?

To check you can use, This link from stackoverflow

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  • I didn't do anything with a service. Being told on SO that if I use a broadcast receiver, then it will continually act until uninstalled even if the app isn't running, though I find this very odd – Russ Wheeler Feb 23 '13 at 13:16
  • Yes, even broadcast receiver has similar behavior, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4301111/android-application-is-still-working-after-exit and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3096246/set-broadcastreceiver-to-be-inactive will help for sure. – Rushi Feb 23 '13 at 13:38
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It seems I don't fully understand how broadcast receivers work.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15040651/is-my-app-still-running

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