How can I create an iPhone in-app screen-saver?
E.g: After 30 seconds the app hasn't been used a "screen-saver" starts. Where screen saver is a movie, a photo slideshow etc.
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A:
You will want to count 30 seconds from any user interaction in this case, so I would suggest having a global NSTimer created in you app delegate that creates and makes prominent your screen saver view if it reaches 30 seconds.
Monitor for touch events and view rotations - if these happen, invalidate your timer and create a new one.
If you don't like the 'create/destroy' aspect of this, you could log a 'last input time' from any touch/rotate event and your timer can compare this to the current time each tick.
davbryn
2010-07-24 14:59:10
I think I'll go with the last input time ... sounds a lot better than create/destroy ...
Andrei Stoleru
2010-07-24 15:49:51