Screen wont "Sleep"?

Game On Interactive

Am I missing a setting or something? Basically, I forgot my test device on while in my app and 20 minutes later the screen was still active. How do I make my game put the screen into sleep mode after no activity for a bit?

jamie_c

There is no specific option in Gamesalad for that, your device should handle that on its own... weird.

freneticz

Did not GS stop the sleep cause to misalign bug?

Game On Interactive

@jamie_c said:
There is no specific option in Gamesalad for that, your device should handle that on its own... weird.

I've tried it on several of my devices =/ other apps go into sleep mode without hassle.

RowdyPants

@Kevinwatts027@gmail.com In iOS and android individual apps can override the device's sleep settings when running. The GS Devs may disable the idle timer in our GS apps.

vafurlogi

I think it was decided to keep the screen on because of apps not requiring touch input for some time (using accelerometer or playing animations) and it had to be either always on or sleep when device requested it. IOS version was already doing the same at that point.

I for one am happier with always on if these are the two options since I use accelerometer for some of my games and they went to sleep on most devices if the screen was not touched.

jamie_c

@vafurlogi said:
I think it was decided to keep the screen on because of apps not requiring touch input for some time (using accelerometer or playing animations) and it had to be either always on or sleep when device requested it. IOS version was already doing the same at that point.

I for one am happier with always on if these are the two options since I use accelerometer for some of my games and they went to sleep on most devices if the screen was not touched.

I didn't know this, thanks for the info.