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Process Manager

The Process Manager provides real-time hardware telemetry and comprehensive process inspection for connected Android devices. Powered by the lightweight DioxAgent daemon, it streams live memory, CPU utilization, and running process states with low overhead.

Features & Telemetry

1. Live Memory & CPU Stats Cards

  • System Memory: Displays total RAM, currently used RAM, free RAM, and a real-time progress bar with the overall percentage used.
  • CPU Usage: Displays total system CPU utilization percentage along with total CPU core count (e.g. 12.5% · 8 Cores).
  • Collapsible Cards: Tap the arrow button in the top action bar to expand or collapse the RAM and CPU progress bars to maximize vertical screen space for process browsing.

2. Live Process List & Badges

For each active process on the target device, the Process Manager displays:

  • Application Icon: Extracted directly from installed APK packages.
  • Process Name & Package Name: Full identifier for the process and its parent package.
  • RAM Usage: Formatted memory usage in MB or GB.
  • CPU Percentage: Real-time normalized CPU percentage used by the process.
  • Process Metadata Badges:
    • PID: Linux process ID.
    • UID: Android user/app identifier.
    • Threads: Total thread count spawned by the process.
    • System / App: Categorical classification badge.

Filtering and Sorting

Filters

  • All: Shows all running user applications and system processes.
  • Apps: Filters to third-party and user-installed applications.
  • System: Filters to Android OS daemons and system services.

Sorting Options

  • RAM (High to Low): Sort by highest memory consumption.
  • CPU (High to Low): Sort by highest real-time CPU usage.
  • PID (Low to High): Sort sequentially by process ID.
  • Name (A to Z): Sort alphabetically by process name.
  • Use the search bar at the top to filter the list dynamically by process name, package name, or numerical PID.

Process Actions

Tap the three-dots menu on any process item to perform actions:

  1. Force Stop App (am force-stop):
    • Immediately terminates all foreground activities, background services, alarms, and subprocesses associated with the parent app package.
  2. Kill PID (kill -9 / SIGKILL):
    • Sends a direct SIGKILL signal to terminate the specific process ID immediately without waiting for graceful shutdown.