Android.intent.action.SCREEN_ON doesn't work as a receiver intent filter?

Following sage advice from CommonsWare I have elected to try to remove the long-living Service and use different techniques Actually, I believe my advice was more of a light blue... :-) But I still need to detect the screen off and on events There are certain events that Android does not want to start up new processes for, so the device does not get too slow from all sorts of stuff all having to run at once ACTION_SCREEN_ON is one of those. See this previous question for light blue advice on that topic So, you need to ask yourself, "Self, do I really need to get control on those events? ".

The core Android team would like it if your answer was "no.

Following sage advice from CommonsWare I have elected to try to remove the long-living Service and use different techniques. Actually, I believe my advice was more of a light blue... :-) But I still need to detect the screen off and on events. There are certain events that Android does not want to start up new processes for, so the device does not get too slow from all sorts of stuff all having to run at once.

ACTION_SCREEN_ON is one of those. See this previous question for light blue advice on that topic. So, you need to ask yourself, "Self, do I really need to get control on those events?".

The core Android team would like it if your answer was "no".

1 Thanks CW. It would have been marvelous if there was some kind of warning at runtime or in the documentation about ACTION_SCREEN_ON being impossible to catch. I file this one under 'gotcha'.

– Jim Blackler Apr 5 '10 at 6:06 Yeah, I think they documented that ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED -- the quintessential example of this phenomenon -- behaves this way, but they definitely skipped this one. If you search for ACTION_SCREEN_ON in the source code (e.g. , via Google Code Search) and find its use in PowerManagerService, you'll notice the flag indicating registered-receiver-only is set. – CommonsWare Apr 5 '10 at 12:15.

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