Counting application usage in Android

Question

Can anyone help me determine how to count how many times an application has been used in Android?

Answer 1

You could have a file which stores one number, not on the SD card but locally for your app. Then open this and increment the number in your onCreate method. You can also keep track of when they do other things but don't actually close it with onPause and onResume... There might be another way to save data without explicitly creating a file...