I am incorporating a timer into an app and would like to keep the screen on even if the user has auto lock enabled. I know this is possible with extensions in Classic, but is it possible in cross platform version? Thanks.

Hey folks, Delighted to announce this is now a built-in block in Thunkable. [keep_screen_awake_block] Leave a :heart: on the announcement post below if this is useful to you: [image] tada Latest Thunkable ✕ Release; Responsive Web Apps and Keep Screen On! 2020-04-23 Announcemen…

Hi, @io.nut.ilie ! :wave: Should we consider your problem as solved? Thanks a lot! P.S. Anytime you would like to mention me, please mention @kartik14 instead of @kartik (@kartik is discontinued account, so I might not get any message.)

Thank you @kartik14 for your replay! I understand what may be the cause but this is not the solution. I need to have in a way the trigger it with a Thunkable button, that will generate more actions, beside the enabling of the NoSleep. :pray:

Hey, does it make any difference if you have the html file loaded from online or native? How about if you have the webviewer call the file/address in the code upon screen loading?

Thank you @hhuman . I am not sure how to implement it native and for the moment I just abandoned it the project. Anyway, the idea of keeping alive the screen it is essential for many types of apps.

I’m sorry that you put the project aside for now. To implement it in the app, I had to add the js script to the header of the html file itself and just uploaded as an asset and set webviewer block to wakelock.html in the code block upon screen loading up. I combined your auto wake lock function and…

really wish there was a way for this i have a podcast app and have to have the player load externally But i had another streaming radio app which played in the background but dont seem to have that option here on thunkable

Hey Thunkers, I found 2 threads on talking about keep the screen active while the app is open. As mentioned in those threads, the screen times out according to the phones setting. Which is usually 30 second, I like other thunks would like my screen to remain on longer then the 30 seconds while the …

I may have found another thread. Try this. Keep the screen active

This is one of the threads I was talking about. They have a web_viewer Url which is https://hencehuman.github.io/index.html . This works if the user clicks the enable button. However that not exactly practical for my app. Can this be enabled when a screen opens so they don’t have to keep clicking the…

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jared March 14, 2020, 4:57pm 63

here is one potential solution

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