Detect if app is "Minimized"

Questions
1

Is there any way to detect if an app is minimized? Also is it possible to detect when an app is resumed?

2

No, you canā€™t really detect it now. I know that itā€™s in the backlog and scheduled for implementation in the coming one or two releases.

3

But does the engine handle any of this internally? It is very important when an app is minimized to:

  • Pause all (most) activity
  • Pause sound (especially long or looping sounds)
  • Reducing activities that consume CPU in the background
  • Stop rendering
    etc

(maybe I should read the docs first :wink: )

4

Yes the engine takes care of pausing everything. The game wont be running in the background or anything like this.

5

@britzl Is there any update on this feature? I know the game auto ā€œpausesā€, but I have a custom pause screen that Iā€™d like to show if the app is minimized on a phone, so that when the player returns they arenā€™t immediately put back into the game (they have to click a ā€˜unpauseā€™ button)

6

Hmm, @AGulev and @andreas.strangequest, did you solve your issues with detecting pause? I think @Mathias_Westerdahl concluded that WINDOW_EVENT_FOCUS_LOST should be triggered when the game is paused which should be what you need @therondevelopment to show a pause screen when coming back. But maybe there was an issue with the event not being triggered?

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I am using WINDOW_EVENT_FOCUS_LOST and have no any issue with it.

@Dragosha told something about issue, but I never reproduced it.

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8

donā€™t forget that different verisons of Android works different. I used Android 7.1 for test. And my phone catches WINDOW_EVENT_FOCUS_LOST when app gains focus back.

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9

Great Iā€™ll try that. Thanks!

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