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Is your feature request related to a problem?
I was thinking of building a mobile monitoring app, and wanted the screen to remain on while the app is running.
I looked into it and there are simple native APIs for it.
On iOS you can call
[[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] addOperationWithBlock:^ {
[UIApplication sharedApplication].idleTimerDisabled = YES;
}];(Thanks Andy for finding this, I only found the Swift API)
On Android it's split into two options, either keep screen on or keep CPU running, not entirely sure we need the latter and the former doesn't require permissions:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
}
}https://developer.android.com/develop/background-work/background-tasks/scheduling/wakelock
It looks like there's also a C version of this code but I could only find mention of it and not the API itself.
Is it possible to construct a solution with the existing API?
No response
Describe the solution you'd like to see.
I think probably just add to the mobile driver API a method that calls the native APIs, preferably something that can be set and reset, so you can keep screen on for specific long lasting tasks and let it lock otherwise
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