iPhone auto-lock while playing

Questions
1

I experience that the iPhone dims the screen down, preparing for auto-lock, while playing. I use the accelerometer for player control, so the might be a while without user touch input. Is there a way to prevent this from happening, without telling people to turn up the auto-lock time. :slight_smile:

Edit:
Ping @britzl @sicher @jakob.pogulis

2

I don’t know about a solution with Defold that would work right now, but looks like this is the kind of style native devs use

-(void)callEveryTwentySeconds
{
// DON’T let the device go to sleep during our gameplay
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:NO]; // required hack
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:YES];
}

If that kind of thing was possible in Defold then you could detect lack of any accelerometer movement at all after so long and then allow it to auto lock again.

3

If you’d like, you can test our beta 1.2.86 which contains a new lua module window. if you call window.set_dim_mode(window.DIMMING_OFF) and window.set_dim_mode(window.DIMMING_ON), you will disable/enable screen dimming respectively. There is also a window.get_dim_mode()for convenience.

This is good for ingame vs menu/pause behavior. Beware of the added battery drain though (as I’m sure you anticipated).

Note that the actual release is only a few days away.

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