Disable sleep on certain activity

android sleep
Amrit Sharma picture Amrit Sharma · Nov 3, 2012 · Viewed 21k times · Source

Is there any way to disable sleep of android mobile phone when user is in certain activity.

I want to disable screen time out when user is in main activity.

Is there any way to do it? Don't know if it is possible or not?

Answer

Chirag picture Chirag · Nov 3, 2012

Try this.

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle) 
 {
     super.onCreate(icicle);
     getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
 }

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