Calling hidden API in android to turn screen off

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Here’s what I did to work around the need to make the screen sleep. You can do this in an activity window. I paired it with reducing the sleep timeout to 5 sec for this custom lockscreen activity. You can view all my source over at my project page, but here’s the relevant part about turning the screen off that worked for me on a droid.

public void setBright(float value) {
    Window mywindow = getWindow();
    WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = mywindow.getAttributes();
    lp.screenBrightness = value;
    mywindow.setAttributes(lp);
}

//call this task to turn off the screen in a fadeout.


class Task implements Runnable {
    public void run() {                
        if (bright != 0) {
            setBright(bright/100); //start at 10% bright and go to 0 (screen off)
            bright--;
            serviceHandler.postDelayed(myTask, 100L);
        } else {
            setBright((float) 0.0); 
            bright = 10;//put bright back
        }
    }
}

I used the handler task as a test for the method, it worked when I called it from onBackPressed in the first build. Now, I just have the activity setBright to 0.0 at onCreate. This makes it so the screen doesn’t actually turn on even if my user wakes the CPU by an accidental volume key press. When I want the screen to go on, I have the key event call setBright to a value greater than 0 (1.0 means max bright). I’m very lucky this works for my custom lockscreen activity. I found that changing the literal brightness system setting doesn’t work like this, and won’t get the screen off.

check out my other source over on my project svn http://code.google.com/p/mylockforandroid/source/checkout

How hard do you think it is to ask the android team to add support for turning the screen off or defining whether the screen should wake via Lock mediator replacement similarly to how you could program an alternative Home Launcher app?

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