Questions lost if screen goes off

[wehlutyk]

Your screen goes off during a probe because you were distracted. You get the phone back on, questions are gone. No explanation. And you're very surprised.

[vincentadam87]

that is what you get when you daydream when you are not supposed to

2014-09-21 21:49 GMT+01:00 Sébastien Lerique [email protected]:

Your screen goes off during a probe because you were distracted. You get
the phone back on, questions are gone. No explanation. And you're very
surprised.

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[wehlutyk]

Detecting when screen is going off is done by registering a Broadcast Receiver at runtime: http://www.coderzheaven.com/2011/01/18/detect-when-the-android-screen-goes-off-2/

In that case we set a flag in PageActivity, so that the onPause/onStop doesn't finish itself if the screen is going off. We also need a new status for sequences: STATUS_PAUSED

[wehlutyk]

Does this bother anybody else @vincentadam87 @MklBst ?

Detecting when the screen is going off turns out to be pretty complicated. So I'm thinking of doing it differently:

• instead of clearing a sequence away (and marking it as incomplete) whenever the user leaves it (which includes when the screen goes off), allow the user to leave and come back to the sequence using the recent activities functionality of Android,
• but if the sequence has been opened over 10 minutes ago (or less), show a popup telling the user he's taking too long and force close the sequence. It would work that way for morning/evening questionnaires and probes.

That way sequences don't get dismissed if the screen goes off, and the user can switch to something else while answering a probe, but still can't leave for too long if he wants to finish the current probe.

[MklBst]

Sounds good. Sometimes I just turn my screen off mistakenly, and then yeah, I'd like to be able to get back to what I was editing.