Detect App inactivity/idle timeout in NativeScript

[atchakraborty]

I need to detect user's inactivity time in NativeScript app. I tried with few plugins (like ng-idle) but they are not compatible with NativeScript. I also tried to to emit application level event (in page router outlet) but it is not working either. Any help will be appreciated.

Infact I tried to extend activity, onPause, onResume everything is calling except onUserInteraction

public onUserInteraction(): void { console.log("onUserInteraction overwritten from app.ts"); // OVERWRITTEN BEHAVIOUR }

This piece of code never getting called.

Yes I have declared @JavaProxy('com.tns.NativeScriptActivity') and I have used tns-platform-declarations as well.

Please let me know what else to do?

[tsonevn]

HI @atchakraborty,
In your case, you could try using the nativescript-idle plugin and check if it will work for your project.

[atchakraborty]

@tsonevn already used but its not giving me any option to check user interactivity or idle time. The only function is there for long waiting task. any other help?

[NickIliev]

@atchakraborty the repository is for logging issues, bugs and features related to NativeScript.
For how-to related questions please use the community channels like the NativeScript forum, SO or NativeScript community slack

I have updated my sample with overwritten onUserInteraction method - the updated example can be found here.
The demo is very basic - keep in mind that you would like to extend the activity in a separate file and provide your own activity name (more details here).
Instruction regarding the demo can be found here

Closing as duplicate to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48788676/detect-app-inactivity-idle-timeout-in-nativescript

[nikoTM]

@NickIliev After extending the application like that other event callbacks stopped firing within the app:

    app.on(app.suspendEvent, () => {
      console.log('suspended');
    });

    app.on(app.resumeEvent, () => {
      console.log('resumed');
    });

Those callbacks never log. Is that expected behavior? If not, how can I fix it? Also, is it possible to somehow expose onUserInteraction events to be used within the app through the same event system as in app.on('userInteraction'... ? Currently to get hold of that event I need to create an observable outside of Angular app, create and push that event through that observable to get hold of it within ng app. This feels like a bad solution to me. Thanks.

EDIT:

Actually, I was able to get the callbacks to work using:

  app.android.on(app.AndroidApplication.activityPausedEvent, callback)
  app.android.on(app.AndroidApplication.activityResumedEvent, callback)

I guess my question is would it be possible to get hold of userInteraction event more elegantly than the custom solution mentioned above.

[s-doddapaneni]

How to achieve this for iOS using NativeScript and Angular?

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