Accessing the Running Applications

Applications running on a device are known as tasks. The TApaTaskList class is used to access applications running on a device, where each task can be an instance of the TApaTask class, which is used to manipulate or query tasks.

// Assign UID of the application to a constant, to find the application by its UID

const TUid KMyAppUid = {0x10009e9f};

// Creates an instance of a TApaTaskList taking reference to a window server session.
//    TApaTaskList allows access to all tasks running on the device. 
             
TApaTaskList taskList(CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession());

// Creates a TApaTask instance that allows us to find out things about the task in question, for example: send a
// key-stroke to it, abort or end the task.              

TApaTask task = taskList.FindApp(KMyAppUid);

// Checks whether the specified task exists on the device.          

if (task.Exists())
    {
    task.EndTask(); // Ends the task
    }

_LIT(KAppName, "myApp");
TApaTaskList taskList(CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession());
TApaTask task = taskList.FindApp(KAppName);
if (task.Exists())
    {
    task.BringToForeground();
    }