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POAndroid - Inactivity/Activity regardless of top app
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copied!<p>I need to find out when the last user interaction was, regardless of which application is on top. I don't care about where or what the event was I just need to know when it was. Or alternatively, as it happens, I receive an event.</p> <p>I've tried multiple things:</p> <ol> <li>Create service with a window and added a touch listener. This ate the touch event and didn't pass it down</li> <li>Looked for a shell command. <code>getevent</code> works (new line comes in every time a touch is received) however you need root and so it is not an appropriate solution for me.</li> <li>Looked for "time until lock" but came up with nothing.</li> </ol> <p>Also note: There is no security concern with this as I don't need any identifying information such as touch location. Just a type stamp (or live event).</p> <p>I'm open to using reflection to figure it out as well.</p> <hr> <p>@user2558882 has a very good solution. As of now, that's the best approach I've come across.</p> <p>While that's great, it still requires the user to manually enable our application in the accessibility controls. We have customers with thousands of devices and we have a way to automatically update and change settings. We try and keep manual configuration to a minimum, but some things still require user input such as enabling Device Admin mode. So this solution is acceptable however I'm still open to a way that doesn't require any user input to enable.</p> <hr> <p>I ended up implementing @user2558882's idea to use an accessibility service. Though other ideas are welcome.</p>

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