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Android find total running time of an app today using adb

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adb shell dumpsys usagestats can be used to get an app's usage stats.

For example, to get today's run time / usage of YouTube Kids app adb shell dumpsys usagestats com.google.android.youtube.tvkids | grep -A 5 "In-memory daily stats" | grep "totalTimeUsed" | sed 's/.*totalTimeUsed="$[^"]*$".*/\1/' | awk -F: '{if(NF==2) print "00:" $0; else printf "%02d:%s\n", $1, substr($0, index($0,":")+1)}'

will return run time in HH:MM:SS format 00:00:32