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# Application Usage History

#### Purpose

Provides a way to retrieve application usage information for a specified date range, in addition to the ongoing foreground-app sampling SA6 already performs.

#### Location

data/collectors/CollectApplications.kt, utils/InstalledApplications.kt, workers/InstalledApplicationWorker.kt, event appusage\_history (EventNames.HISTORICAL\_APPLICATION\_USAGE).

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#### Behavior

* SA6 continuously samples the foreground application at an interval controlled by samplingTimer and reports usage via the appusage event.

#### Configuration

| Configuration | Type             | Default | Description                          |
| ------------- | ---------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------ |
| samplingTimer | Integer(seconds) | 1800    | Interval for foreground-app sampling |

#### Permissions

Requires `PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS` (a special "Usage Access" permission, granted via system settings, not a normal runtime prompt). If not granted, usage-history queries return no/incomplete data .


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