I'm going to write an app to do dynamic analysis of processes. In order to achieve this I want to have detailed statistics about process running on my phone.
Note: I have rooted phone so some limits are removed.
So here is my question, how can I collect process information in detail dynamically? I know results of top,ps commands can help me, however I don't know how to call them or do I have access these commands on a rooted phone?
As I searched around the web ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo is no longer useful since It provide limited information since Lolipop.
Linux top and ps are available even if the device is not rooted. You can run them from your app with Runtime.getRuntime().exec(). If you need to run a command "elevated", check this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6953432/192373.
Also, if your app has root permissions, it can examine the /proc filesystem, Linux style.