Show Activity passed lockscreen

Question

I'm building an alarm clock app. When the alarm goes off, I launch an activity with a video. If my screen is not locked, the activity pops up and plays the video, but when the screen is locked, it only plays the audio and turns the screen on. When I manually unlock the screen, the activity gets dismissed.

Ideally it would get passed the lockscreen & show me the activity, so the video immeditality pops up.

This is the most important part of that activity (it starts from a service)

public class AlarmScreen extends Activity {

    private PowerManager.WakeLock mWakeLock;
    private AudioManager audio;

    private static final int WAKELOCK_TIMEOUT = 60 * 1000;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_alarm_screen);


        btnDismiss.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                finish();
            }
        });

        //play video
        //getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT);
        //if you want the controls to appear
        // videoHolder.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));


        Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/"
                + R.raw.video1small);
        videoViewAlarm.setVideoURI(video);
        videoViewAlarm.start();

        //Ensure wakelock release
        Runnable releaseWakelock = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON);
                getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
                getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED);
                getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD);

                if (mWakeLock != null && mWakeLock.isHeld()) {
                    mWakeLock.release();
                }
            }
        };

        new Handler().postDelayed(releaseWakelock, WAKELOCK_TIMEOUT);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        // Set the window to keep screen on
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON);
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED);
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD);

        // Acquire wakelock
        PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
        if (mWakeLock == null) {
            mWakeLock = pm.newWakeLock((PowerManager.FULL_WAKE_LOCK | PowerManager.SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK | PowerManager.ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP), TAG);
        }

        if (!mWakeLock.isHeld()) {
            mWakeLock.acquire();
            Log.i(TAG, "Wakelock aquired!!");
        }

    }

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

        if (mWakeLock != null && mWakeLock.isHeld()) {
            mWakeLock.release();
        }
        finish();
    }

}

My Logs:

11-02 16:27:00.430    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock D/AlarmScreen﹕ onCreate
11-02 16:27:00.450    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock D/AlarmScreen﹕ Starting video
11-02 16:27:00.460    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock D/AlarmScreen﹕ onResume
11-02 16:27:00.460    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock I/AlarmScreen﹕ Wakelock aquired!!
11-02 16:27:00.470    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock D/AlarmScreen﹕ OnPause
11-02 16:27:00.940    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock I/Timeline﹕ Timeline: Activity_idle id: android.os.BinderProxy@42c1e128 time:28154499
11-02 16:27:01.000    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock D/MediaPlayer﹕ getMetadata
11-02 16:27:13.670    9977-9989/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock W/MediaPlayer﹕ info/warning (3, 0)
11-02 16:27:13.690    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock D/AlarmScreen﹕ onResume
11-02 16:27:13.690    9977-9977/be.thomascbeerten.yomommaoclock I/AlarmScreen﹕ Wakelock aquired!!

Update I found a SO Question regarding the same thing here: Why the onPause method is called immediately after onCreate

I noticed that onPause was called, so I will find my answer there!

Nevertheless, the answer from Abraham Philip was an important piece of the puzzle!

Answer 1

Have you tried:

KeyguardManager km = (KeyguardManager) getSystemService(Context.KEYGUARD_SERVICE); 
final KeyguardManager.KeyguardLock kl = km .newKeyguardLock("MyKeyguardLock"); 
kl.disableKeyguard(); 

where you'd like to unlock the screen?

In your case it'd be:

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        // Set the window to keep screen on
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON);
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED);
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD);

        //New code
        KeyguardManager km = (KeyguardManager) getSystemService(Context.KEYGUARD_SERVICE); 
        final KeyguardManager.KeyguardLock kl = km .newKeyguardLock("MyKeyguardLock"); 
        kl.disableKeyguard();

        // Acquire wakelock
        PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
        if (mWakeLock == null) {
            mWakeLock = pm.newWakeLock((PowerManager.FULL_WAKE_LOCK | PowerManager.SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK | PowerManager.ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP), TAG);
        }

        if (!mWakeLock.isHeld()) {
            mWakeLock.acquire();
            Log.i(TAG, "Wakelock aquired!!");
        }

    }