Don't have a server and this is what my users asked for. They don't
want prying eyes for their financial data. The password is optional
and a yet to receive a bad comment about this feature.
On Jul 19, 2:34 am, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote:
Requiring users to re-type their
Sure...
I have a helper method that I call from all activities' onPause()
method. It saves the current time in the application's presistent
preferences:
public static void setAppLastHiddenTime(Context context)
{
Preferences.setLong(context,
Requiring users to re-type their passwords every time they leave the
app (even if not by their doing, e.g. when receiving a phone-call or
reacting to a notification), may reaallly start to annoy your users.
And if your app needs a high level of security, i can imagine that the
users' passwords
Why do you need to force the user to login again just because their
personal workflow involved starting an activity in a different
application?
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Hello,
I also do this, BUT I do not put it into every single activity. What I
do is create a Handler at application level and a time check object.
The handler fires every say 10 seconds and checks the time object. If
it matches what I need I broadcast an event across my entire
application. Each
@Frank weis: my application requires a high level of security, so if the
user leaves it I don't want that someone else who would use the android
mobile can open it without having to log in.
Thanks for all your replies it helps a lot !
I think i will go for the timeout method. It's a good point
You have no control over the application and/or activity life cycle.
This will make is very hard to determine when the user 'exits' the
app.
I would do this:
1. Consider an explicit 'log-out' option for your users.
2. Add a time-out to your login-sessions. Refresh the session (time-
out) when the
1) This is not the best option, at least not without option 2, as the
user can still leave without having the opportunity to log out, for
example to answer a call.
2) I do this, it's a bit of a pain as I need to check the timeout in
every activity, and I have at least a couple of dozens. So it's
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