Does the mobileLockIdleTimer command work

[Simon Knight]

Hi,

The command

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mobileLockIdleTimer

does not prevent the screen and device from going to sleep in an app I writing, has anyone else managed to get it working? Are there some hidden setting within Android that I need to make?

The comments in the dictionary

Comments:
Locking the idle timer increments an internal lock count, while unlocking the idle timer decrements the lock count. When the lock count goes from 0 to 1, the idleTimer is turned off; when the lock count goes from 1 to 0, the idleTimer is turned on.

could be read as using the command in a loop along with the unlock command.

[Simon Knight]

Hi I have tried the following code:

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on mouseUp
   if the environment is not "mobile" then
      answer " This application is only able to run on an Android device equipped with GPS."
   else
      mobileLockIdleTimer
      if mobileIdleTimerLocked() is true then 
         answer "Timer is locked"
      else
         answer "The Timer is not locked"
      end if
      RingMaster
   end if
end mouseUp

And it reports "The timer is not locked"

[Dixie]

Simon...

The 'iphoneLockIdleTimer', 'iphoneUnlockIdleTimer' do work... I have used them... I've attached a stack with which I have just tested them again before I posted...

be well

Dixie

[Simon Knight]

Dixie,

Thanks for the demo stack. It does not work on Android but then why would iphone commands. I tried substituting Android and Mobile but no joy and I have ticked the idle timer option in the build settings.



Thanks for trying

Simon

[Simon Knight]

I have submitted a bug report (No.10361) and it has been confirmed as a fault.

[guucidan]

I struggled with this for a while. It turned out that I had not turned on the option in Android Settings. File/Stand Alone Application Settings/Android - check the "Application Permissions" option Idle Timer.

Worked perfectly after that.

Thanks

[Simon Knight]

Thanks - I will have a look if I am able to locate my old code.

Simon