Dim screen while user inactive

Question

I have an app which is used for lets say 4 hours, but only every 5 minutes a user needs to make an input or read the screen. Putting the phone to sleep and locking the scre

Answer 1

Does this answer your last Q from Jan 26 '11 at 15:28

 PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
 PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag");
  wl.acquire();
   ..screen will stay on during this section..
 wl.release();

See here for more: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html

So what I mean is that you should acquire power managers wake lock before you launch your new activity to prevent screen lock. And release when you are done.

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You could likewise use lp.screenBrightness instead of lp.dimAmount

And be sure to enter value higher then 0 to avoid screen lock:

lp.screenBrightness = 0.01f + value / 100.0f;