How to keep running my android app when phone goes standby?

Question

Hi i'm programming an app that reads sensors values, and I need that it continue saving data while the phone goes standby (the screen go black after 1 minute). Any idea?

Answer 1

使您的代码在服务中

Answer 2

As P10 said Service is best.

And depending on how frequent you want to collect new data, a wake lock may be in order, to wake the phone from sleep. This of course can reduce battery saving sleep time so use wake locks sparingly.