The PowerManagement plugin offers access to the devices power-management functionality. It should be used for applications which keep running for a long time without any user interaction.

For details on power functionality see:

Android: PowerManager

Installation

Copy the PowerManagement.java file to your src/org/apache/cordova/plugin directory.

Copy the powermanagement.js file to your assets/www/js directory.

Edit your AndroidManifest.xml and add the following permission: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

Edit your res/xml/config.xml and add the following plugin: <plugin name="PowerManagement" value="org.apache.cordova.plugin.PowerManagement"/>

Usage

Add this script tag to your index.html file, after calling your Cordova .js file: <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="js/powermanagement.js"></script>

Add the following code to your app's .js file, inside the function called by deviceready:

var powerman = window.plugins.powerManagement;

There are three available methods to call:

powerman.acquire(successCallback, failureCallback)

Acquires a 'wake-lock', preventing the device screen from going to sleep.

powerman.dim(successCallback, failureCallback)

Acquires a partial 'wake-lock', allowing the screen to dim but preventing the device from going to sleep.

powerman.release(successCallback, failureCallback)

Release an acquired 'wake-lock'. Device able to sleep again.

License

This file is part of GOFG Sports Computer - http://www.gofg.at/.

GOFG Sports Computer is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

GOFG Sports Computer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GOFG Sports Computer. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.