I finally managed to do some testing on a HTC Hero. It does seem that the LayoutParams are specific to the activity. Setting full brightness on one activity went back to normal once I closed the activity/it lost focus.
On 30 Sep, 09:41, Chris <themaninthesuitc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I know how you feel, I often get the same on other forums where I have > more expertise. I will do some testing once I have a device to hand > as the emulator gives no indication of the brightness. Once I know > for sure I will post here again. > > On Sep 30, 6:35 am, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My apologies if I seemed a little curt in my original response. > > > There are quite a few people who post questions without doing any work for > > themselves to find an answer... and I had already answered two other people > > today who fit into this category. It took me 2 minutes to look on the SDK > > docs to find the answer for them. > > > It gets a little old and it seemed that your question fit into that category > > as well. I really don't know the answer to the question. Perhaps someone > > else can answer this, or, when you get your phone, you could post your > > findings. > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > There are only 10 types of people in the world... > > Those who know binary and those who don't. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Chris > > <themaninthesuitc...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > > I haven't tested as I still have a week until the phone arrives. I am > > > doing a few learning android exercise type apps and 1 felt would be a > > > good basis for learning the app lifecycle/structure would be a "torch" > > > app with settings for things like the brightness and so on. But > > > generally yes, I agree messing with the brightness would normally be a > > > bad idea, which is why I am curious if I needed to return it to what > > > it was or if it was app/activity centric. > > > > I will do some testing once I have a phone to test on. > > > > On Sep 29, 7:35 pm, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Have you tried some testing to see what behavior you get? > > > > > Also, in my opinion, I wouldn't be messing with the screen brightness > > > unless > > > > there is a real good reason to. I have my phone settings set exactly > > > > how > > > I > > > > want them. If an app changed them without a VERY good reason I would be > > > > extremely annoyed and probably uninstall the app. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Justin > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > There are only 10 types of people in the world... > > > > Those who know binary and those who don't. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Chris > > > > <themaninthesuitc...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > > > > I am using WindowManager.LayoutParams to set the brightness of my > > > > > actvity. My question is, is this activity centric, app centric or > > > > > does this change the current system brightness meaning I need to clean > > > > > up the brightness back to what it was in my onPause? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
