Hi Dianne I don't know about anyone else, but I am NOT looking for a secondary screen support. I'm very interested in writing a screen saver. Our current hack on the Android emulator is cute, but it is not usable in a real phone, since it basically requires telnetting into the root to get information about keypresses.
Without boring you with details, my company has produced screen-savers for other mobile platforms which have proven very popular. Admittedly, this isn't the world's highest calling, but I think it's no more frivolous than many other apps out there. Of course, in order to make a useful product we need to not kill the battery so we need to control the lights and check phone activity - currently we can only check key presses and are not sure of the hook to find out if there has been touch-screen activity.On a platform like Symbian, even without writing an official screen saver we have kept our battery use low enough that in our tests, our application can be kept running for 48 hours without the battery going down even one "bar" - which we consider to be "good enough" for most users. So - the current pieces of the puzzle which we have are the Wakelock to stop the phone going to sleep and of course our algorithm for when to tun the lights on and off - the pieces we need are: A way of determining user activity (even if we are in the background) - in Symbian for example there is a timer function called "UserInactivity" which basically fires after x amount of idle time and then another function called ResetInactivityTimer which stop the phone from doing its regular idle stuff like going to sleep... Are there any tips you can give me? Thanks Kibi On Oct 7, 1:16 am, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you are talking about is not a screen saver, but secondary screen > support for screens that consume little battery while running. > Secondary screens in general is not currently supported in the > platform. > > On Oct 6, 3:46 pm, "hve.dk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why is it silly? > > The screeen saver on my current phone displays the current date and > > time. > > I love that I'm able to use the phone as a watch -> without pressing > > any buttons on it <-. > > Why should'nt we be able to display more information (for instance the > > TODO list), when we don't use the phone for anything else??? > > > On 7 Okt., 00:04, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We don't have a screen saver API. IMHO screen savers on a phone > > > are... kind-of silly. > > > > You might be able to hack together something, but it's not really a > > > thing that is supported. > > > > On Oct 6, 1:19 pm, "hve.dk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'll like to create a screen saver that shows some information: > > > > Battery level, my next appointment aso. > > > > Is it possible to that on an Android phone? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
