title: How to obtain overall CPU usage as a single value in Android?
body: <p>I'm fairly new to Android, and am looking to track and log the overall CPU usage of a phone through an app that I'm making. Therefore, I'd like to be able to obtain the overall CPU usage as a % value, like 50%, 100%, etc., like how Task Manager in Windows displays the % usage of the CPU, or how other Android apps have a % CPU load (such as mentioned in this question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46714396/how-to-find-cpu-load-of-any-android-device-programmatically?noredirect=1&amp;lq=1">How to find CPU load of any Android device programmatically</a>) </p>
  
  <p>I've looked through several other Stack Overflow questions, but I haven't been able to find any answers that say whether I can get this CPU usage I'm looking for as a single value that I can store in a database and track over time.</p>
  
  <p>These are some of the other questions I've looked at:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3118234/get-memory-usage-in-android">Get Memory Usage in Android</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46714396/how-to-find-cpu-load-of-any-android-device-programmatically?noredirect=1&amp;lq=1">How to find CPU load of any Android device programmatically</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34808216/how-i-get-cpu-usage-and-temperature-information-into-an-android-app">How I get CPU usage and temperature information into an android app?</a></p>