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user838522
user838522

Reputation: 3991

Keep the screen awake throughout my activity

I have three activities in my app. I want to keep the screen awake when it is in the second activity. The screen should not go off in my second activity unless the "lock" key is pressed manually. I went through many links but they seem unclear to me.

Upvotes: 72

Views: 56697

Answers (5)

Ted Hopp
Ted Hopp

Reputation: 234867

As discussed in the Android tutorial Keep the Screen On, you can do this in a few ways. You can set the FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON on the activity's window:

getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);

An XML equivalent for that is to add the attribute android:keepScreenOn="true" to the root view of your activity's layout. The advantage of setting the flag programmatically is that you can use

getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);

when you no longer need to force the screen to stay on while your activity is running.

Another way to control the screen (and certain other resources) is to use a wake lock:

mWakeLock = ((PowerManager) getContext().getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE))
    .newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK, getClass().getName());
mWakeLock.acquire();
// screen stays on in this section
mWakeLock.release();

The manifest will have to include this permission:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK"/>

However, as discussed in the tutorial, a wake lock is more appropriate for other use cases (such as a service or background task needing the CPU to keep running while the screen is off).

Upvotes: 175

PetarT
PetarT

Reputation: 79

This code is deprecated, use this instead:

PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
wl = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag");
wl.acquire();

After you finish with usage, call (best solution is to call this method in onDestroy method of some activity):

wl.release();

More about this on this link

Upvotes: 0

Liam George Betsworth
Liam George Betsworth

Reputation: 18513

I find this solution much easier:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" // Whatever your layout is
    ...
    android:keepScreenOn="true"> // Add this line

Just add this to your activity layout XML.

Upvotes: 57

bindal
bindal

Reputation: 1932

try to use this

getWindow().addFlags(
                        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN
                                | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);

Upvotes: 1

user370305
user370305

Reputation: 109257

As per I understand your question, I think you have to use WAKE_LOCK for it in your application.

Something like,

final PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
mWakeLock = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK | PowerManager.ON_AFTER_RELEASE,"");    
mWakeLock.acquire();

And in your application's manifest.xml file file add this,

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

Upvotes: 6

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