Can’t apply system screen brightness programmatically in Android

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OK, found the answer here:
Refreshing the display from a widget?

Basically, have to make a transparent activity that processes the brightness change. What’s not mentioned in the post is that you have to do:

Settings.System.putInt(y.getContentResolver(),Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS_MODE, 0);
Settings.System.putInt(y.getContentResolver(),Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS, brightnessLevel);

then do 

WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = getWindow().getAttributes();
    lp.screenBrightness = brightness; 
    getWindow().setAttributes(lp);

And if you call finish() right after applying the changes, brightness will never actually change because the layout has to be created before the brightness settings is applied. So I ended up creating a thread that had a 300ms delay, then called finish().

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