Hello,
As many users, I've experienced the problem that when the desire is in my pocket and I receive a notification, the screen gets accidentally unlocked and the phone starts doing things that I don't want it to do.
I know I can add an unlock pattern so that it won't unlock as easily but this is at the expense of me having to enter it even in situations I would not have needed it.
So I thought that maybe we could use the proximity sensor to tell the phone to never unlock the screen if an object is close to the phone.
Quickly looking at the android docs, it seems that the support for this is in the SDK, but I was wondering if anyone had created an application that does this.
If time permits, I might even have a look at doing it myself, but as I'm very new to Android development, it will take me quite a long time to get to a usable state, hence my question about an existing app that does this.
Regards
Olivier
As many users, I've experienced the problem that when the desire is in my pocket and I receive a notification, the screen gets accidentally unlocked and the phone starts doing things that I don't want it to do.
I know I can add an unlock pattern so that it won't unlock as easily but this is at the expense of me having to enter it even in situations I would not have needed it.
So I thought that maybe we could use the proximity sensor to tell the phone to never unlock the screen if an object is close to the phone.
Quickly looking at the android docs, it seems that the support for this is in the SDK, but I was wondering if anyone had created an application that does this.
If time permits, I might even have a look at doing it myself, but as I'm very new to Android development, it will take me quite a long time to get to a usable state, hence my question about an existing app that does this.
Regards
Olivier