基于Martín marconcini的回答(谢谢!)我终于找到了一个可靠(而且非常简单)的解决方案。

public class ApplicationLifecycleHandler implements Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks, ComponentCallbacks2 {

    private static final String TAG = ApplicationLifecycleHandler.class.getSimpleName();
    private static boolean isInBackground = false;

    @Override
    public void onActivityCreated(Activity activity, Bundle bundle) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityStarted(Activity activity) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityResumed(Activity activity) {

        if(isInBackground){
            Log.d(TAG, "app went to foreground");
            isInBackground = false;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityPaused(Activity activity) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityStopped(Activity activity) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivitySaveInstanceState(Activity activity, Bundle bundle) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityDestroyed(Activity activity) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration configuration) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onLowMemory() {
    }

    @Override
    public void onTrimMemory(int i) {
        if(i == ComponentCallbacks2.TRIM_MEMORY_UI_HIDDEN){
            Log.d(TAG, "app went to background");
            isInBackground = true;
        }
    }
}

然后将其添加到Application类的onCreate()中

public class MyApp extends android.app.Application {

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        ApplicationLifeCycleHandler handler = new ApplicationLifeCycleHandler();
        registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(handler);
        registerComponentCallbacks(handler);

    }

}

我在谷歌Analytics EasyTracker中使用了这个，它起作用了。可以将其扩展为使用简单整数来完成您想要的任务。

public class MainApplication extends Application {

    int isAppBackgrounded = 0;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        appBackgroundedDetector();
    }

    private void appBackgroundedDetector() {
        registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(new ActivityLifecycleCallbacks() {
            @Override
            public void onActivityCreated(Activity activity, Bundle bundle) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onActivityStarted(Activity activity) {
                EasyTracker.getInstance(MainApplication.this).activityStart(activity);
            }

            @Override
            public void onActivityResumed(Activity activity) {
                isAppBackgrounded++;
                if (isAppBackgrounded > 0) {
                    // Do something here
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onActivityPaused(Activity activity) {
                isAppBackgrounded--;
            }

            @Override
            public void onActivityStopped(Activity activity) {
                EasyTracker.getInstance(MainApplication.this).activityStop(activity);
            }

            @Override
            public void onActivitySaveInstanceState(Activity activity, Bundle bundle) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onActivityDestroyed(Activity activity) {

            }
        });
    }
}

这个解决方案呢

public class BaseActivity extends Activity
{

    static String currentAct = "";

    @Override
    protected void onStart()
    {
        super.onStart();

        if (currentAct.equals(""))
            Toast.makeText(this, "Start", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        currentAct = getLocalClassName();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop()
    {
        super.onStop();

        if (currentAct.equals(getLocalClassName()))
        {
            currentAct = "";
            Toast.makeText(this, "Stop", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }
}

所有的Activity都需要扩展BaseActivity。

当一个活动调用另一个(A->B)时，currentAct不等于getLocalClassName()，因为第二个活动(B)的onStart()在第一个(A) (https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities.html#CoordinatingActivities)的onStop()之前被调用。

当用户按下home键或应用程序之间的变化将只调用onStop()，然后currentAct等于getLocalClassName()。

创建一个扩展Application的类。然后我们可以在其中使用它的重载方法onTrimMemory()。

为了检测应用程序是否进入了后台，我们将使用:

 @Override
    public void onTrimMemory(final int level) {
        if (level == ComponentCallbacks2.TRIM_MEMORY_UI_HIDDEN) { // Works for Activity
            // Get called every-time when application went to background.
        } 
        else if (level == ComponentCallbacks2.TRIM_MEMORY_COMPLETE) { // Works for FragmentActivty
        }
    }

ActivityLifecycleCallbacks可能很有趣，但是没有很好的文档。

但是，如果您调用registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks()，您应该能够在活动被创建、销毁等时获得回调。您可以为活动调用getComponentName()。

我的解决方案受到@d60402的答案的启发，也依赖于一个时间窗口，但不使用定时器:

public abstract class BaseActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

  protected boolean wasInBackground = false;

  @Override
  protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    wasInBackground = getApp().isInBackground;
    getApp().isInBackground = false;
    getApp().lastForegroundTransition = System.currentTimeMillis();
  }

  @Override
  protected void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    if( 1500 < System.currentTimeMillis() - getApp().lastForegroundTransition )
      getApp().isInBackground = true;
  }

  protected SingletonApplication getApp(){
    return (SingletonApplication)getApplication();
  }
}

其中SingletonApplication是Application类的扩展:

public class SingletonApplication extends Application {
  public boolean isInBackground = false;
  public long lastForegroundTransition = 0;
}