Re: [android-developers] Setting screen on/off
Why does the SDK not allow that for third party apps? Also, why does turning the brightness to 0 entirely turns the screen off and lock it? Why is there no way to just turn the screen off (entirely dim) without locking it, and also keep it listening to touch events? (So many limitations in the SDK, it forces the developers to use inofficial method calls, if there are any for the specific case.) On Friday, 8 April 2011 15:34:49 UTC+8, Dianne Hackborn wrote: Doing this kind of stuff from third party apps isn't really supported. You may be able to hack up a somewhat working solution, but I don't think you can actually implement a fully working robust solution with the SDK APIs. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:24 AM, luiX_ lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to develop something similar to the proximity event of the dialer during a call, this is: when something is near the proxmity sensor turn off the screen and when there's not power it on again. I've had no problem making the sensor's events work, that was easy, but I'm having a lot of trouble trying to set the screen on/off, this is what I've got this far: - I can power the screen off by setting brightness to zero (using the WindowManager.LayoutParams), the problem is that it locks the screen instead of just setting it off. - I've tried using a PowerManager.WakeLock to several things: - using as flag PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK which should keep the cpu running but allowing the screen and keyboard to go off (but not actually setting them off at the moment, it waits for the configured timeout) - using as flag SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK | ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP and then setting the screen off using the brightness trick but I still do have to manually press the button to bring the screen up. Now, I'm playing with some flags in the Window, but still nothing, I always do have to bring the screen back by pressing the power button. Any ideas/snippets to make this work like when you're inside a call in Android's default dialer? Thanks! :) -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Setting screen on/off
I'm running into the exact same problem. Is the the answer still the same at this time - no support for it in the SDK? What about an NDK solution? Thanks, - Rick Alther -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Setting screen on/off
Hi, I'm trying to develop something similar to the proximity event of the dialer during a call, this is: when something is near the proxmity sensor turn off the screen and when there's not power it on again. I've had no problem making the sensor's events work, that was easy, but I'm having a lot of trouble trying to set the screen on/off, this is what I've got this far: - I can power the screen off by setting brightness to zero (using the WindowManager.LayoutParams), the problem is that it locks the screen instead of just setting it off. - I've tried using a PowerManager.WakeLock to several things: - using as flag PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK which should keep the cpu running but allowing the screen and keyboard to go off (but not actually setting them off at the moment, it waits for the configured timeout) - using as flag SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK | ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP and then setting the screen off using the brightness trick but I still do have to manually press the button to bring the screen up. Now, I'm playing with some flags in the Window, but still nothing, I always do have to bring the screen back by pressing the power button. Any ideas/snippets to make this work like when you're inside a call in Android's default dialer? Thanks! :) -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Setting screen on/off
Doing this kind of stuff from third party apps isn't really supported. You may be able to hack up a somewhat working solution, but I don't think you can actually implement a fully working robust solution with the SDK APIs. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:24 AM, luiX_ lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to develop something similar to the proximity event of the dialer during a call, this is: when something is near the proxmity sensor turn off the screen and when there's not power it on again. I've had no problem making the sensor's events work, that was easy, but I'm having a lot of trouble trying to set the screen on/off, this is what I've got this far: - I can power the screen off by setting brightness to zero (using the WindowManager.LayoutParams), the problem is that it locks the screen instead of just setting it off. - I've tried using a PowerManager.WakeLock to several things: - using as flag PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK which should keep the cpu running but allowing the screen and keyboard to go off (but not actually setting them off at the moment, it waits for the configured timeout) - using as flag SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK | ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP and then setting the screen off using the brightness trick but I still do have to manually press the button to bring the screen up. Now, I'm playing with some flags in the Window, but still nothing, I always do have to bring the screen back by pressing the power button. Any ideas/snippets to make this work like when you're inside a call in Android's default dialer? Thanks! :) -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
