How would I go about doing this. I have the wake lock working ok now but no harm in knowing a different method...
On Jun 16, 8:49 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you REALLY need to hold a full wake lock like this? The vast majority > of apps should use the window flag to keep the screen on while their UI is > shown. This way you don't need the power permission, and you are much less > likely to have bugs that leave the screen on and cause the user's battery to > drain. > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Thomas Riley > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > I need to use a wakelock to hold the screen active while its required. > > I was recommended to use a service which I have been trying but on the > > onDestroy I am getting "wl cannot be resolved". Code below: > > > public class WakeLockService extends Service { > > > �...@override > > public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) { > > // TODO Auto-generated method stub > > return null; > > } > > > public void onCreate() { > > PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService > > (Context.POWER_SERVICE); > > PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock > > (PowerManager.FULL_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag"); > > wl.acquire(); > > } > > > public void onDestroy() { > > wl.release(); > > } > > > } > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
