Finish Activity after timeout if user don't touch screen

Question

I have an Activity. All I want is if user don't touch screen, after a TIMEOUT, this activity will automatically finish(). Anyone have any ideas?

Use `onTouchListener` on your root layout and if there is no touch event `finish` the `Activity` — Apoorv, Jul 28 '14 at 08:53
yes, you can set timer. Set your time in timer.When timer complete then finish your activity. — Divyang Metaliya, Jul 28 '14 at 08:58
The problem i have got is how to reset timeout when user retouch screen — tuan.giao, Jul 28 '14 at 09:13

Hardik4560 · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-28T09:24:17.557

CountDownTimer countDownTimer = new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            //TODO: Do something every second
        }

        public void onFinish() {

            finish();
            //YourActivity.finish();  outside the actvitiy

        }
    }.start();

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            countDownTimer.cancel();
            countDownTimer.start();
        }
        return super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }

So basically you start a countDown timer and than wait for it to get completed. Once completed, call finish on the activity. If in between the user touches the screen, you cancel the timer and start it again.

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What if we have some input through keyboard ? It doesn't count the input from keyboard and kills the activity. — Jibran Khan, Mar 08 '17 at 09:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Look for how to wait/sleep in Android, examples:

wait for 3 seconds or user click

Wait a time - Android

How to "wait" a Thread in Android

And when the wait/sleep ends just call the finish() method.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jul 28 '14 at 09:01

Sotti

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '14 at 09:01

Try this in your Activity:

new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

     public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
         mTextField.setText("seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
     }

     public void onFinish() {

         finish();
         //YourActivity.finish();  outside the actvitiy


     }
  }.start();

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/CountDownTimer.html

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 28 '14 at 09:17

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use this :

int time =0;

then add onTouchListener for your root layout and update time value like this :

time = 0;

and use the handler for count like this :

final Handler handler = new Handler();
    handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
    time++;
    if(time>=10000){
            finish();
     }  
    }
    }, 1000);

it is clear i set finish time for 10 second.

answered Jul 28 '14 at 09:17

Meysam

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It will continue after the activity have been closed – forlayo Dec 17 '18 at 10:53

Finish Activity after timeout if user don't touch screen

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