Start Activity screen even if screen is locked in Android

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yuva ツ picture yuva ツ · Nov 21, 2013 · Viewed 22.1k times · Source

How to start an Activity on device even if screen is locked. I tried as below but it's not working.

Broadcast receiver:

Intent alarmIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");
        alarmIntent.setClass(context, Alarm.class);
        alarmIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        alarmIntent.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED +
                             WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD +
                             WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON +
                             WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON);
        context.startActivity(alarmIntent);

Answer

Junaid picture Junaid · Aug 2, 2015

You can achieve this in two ways:

  1. using wake lock as explained by @Yup in this post.

  2. using window flags.

Using window flags:

Open the Activity A which you want to start in onReceive(...). Paste this in onCreate() of that Activity A

final Window win= getWindow();
win.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD);
win.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON);

Make sure you're not pasting it before setContentView(...) :-)

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