How to turn screen off or send device to sleep

Question

I want to send device to sleep or turn the screen off. I have investigated and found this topic: Turn off screen on Android

Basically, the are three ways to do it, b

Answer 1

I answer myself. It is possible to turn off the device, but the application has to implement the device administrator feature via API: Device Administration

In this API there is a locknow() function that do what I want.

Anyway, this is for extending the android hardware and security features and it is very unlikely that anyone wants to control the device in that way.

What I wanted is the ability to lock the device from a simple gesture. As I dont want to make my own device manager class I check if the free application "lockScreen" is installed and launch it. It is a shortcut and an easy way to do what I want. This app must be register as device manager so it has implemented this class. It is possible to get it free from the market.

Answer 2

My application already does this fine, I found this in my PowerManager.class

 /**
 * Force the device to go to sleep. Overrides all the wake locks that are
 * held.
 * 
 * @param time is used to order this correctly with the wake lock calls. 
 *          The time  should be in the {@link SystemClock#uptimeMillis 
 *          SystemClock.uptimeMillis()} time base.
 */
public void goToSleep(long time) 
{
    try {
        mService.goToSleep(time);
    } catch (RemoteException e) {
    }
}