Android - How to prevent the phone screen from turning on when volume or camera key is pressed?

Question

I have an activity that shows up when the phone screen goes to sleep/turns off ie turns black. For some reason, the phone turns on when the volume buttons or the camera buttons are pressed. By turns on, I mean the screen wakes up or comes back from the black screen state.

I've tried using dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) and the buttons are disabled on the activity, but they still wake up the phone.

Answer 1

You could try overriding the onKeyDown(KeyEvent) method and change what happens for those keys. However, I'm not too optimistic as if you're running an activity, it will be in an inactive state when the display is off, and also it could be that the phone is hard wired to wake up on those buttons. It could be device specific. Hard to say. Try that out and let me know how it goes, I'm currious