Thursday, February 3, 2011

Change system screen brightness, using android.provider.Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS

Last exercise "Change Android Screen Brightness, LayoutParams.screenBrightness" for my app only. On order to change system screen brightness, we can use the code:

android.provider.Settings.System.putInt(getContentResolver(),
android.provider.Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS,
SysBackLightValue);

Change system screen brightness

To access Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS, we have to modify AndroidManifest.xml to grant premission of "android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS".
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.exercise.AndroidScreenBrightness"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0">
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
<activity android:name=".AndroidScreenBrightness"
android:label="@string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

</application>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS"/>
</manifest>


main code
package com.exercise.AndroidScreenBrightness;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.SeekBar;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class AndroidScreenBrightness extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */

float BackLightValue = 0.5f; //dummy default value

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

SeekBar BackLightControl = (SeekBar)findViewById(R.id.backlightcontrol);
final TextView BackLightSetting = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.backlightsetting);
Button UpdateSystemSetting = (Button)findViewById(R.id.updatesystemsetting);

UpdateSystemSetting.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener(){

@Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

int SysBackLightValue = (int)(BackLightValue * 255);

android.provider.Settings.System.putInt(getContentResolver(),
android.provider.Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS,
SysBackLightValue);

}});

BackLightControl.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener(){

@Override
public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar arg0, int arg1, boolean arg2) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
BackLightValue = (float)arg1/100;
BackLightSetting.setText(String.valueOf(BackLightValue));

WindowManager.LayoutParams layoutParams = getWindow().getAttributes();
layoutParams.screenBrightness = BackLightValue;
getWindow().setAttributes(layoutParams);


}

@Override
public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

@Override
public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}});
}
}


main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Set BackLight of the App"
/>
<SeekBar
android:id="@+id/backlightcontrol"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10px"
android:max="100"
android:progress="50"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/backlightsetting"
android:text="0.50"
/>
<Button
android:id="@+id/updatesystemsetting"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Update Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS"
/>
</LinearLayout>


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Related article:
- Get system screen brightness

5 comments:

lolita said...

Can someone explain exactly how from the beginning don't understand anything:(

prathap said...

hi i want to adjust contrast of the screen and video

Arjo said...

I'd like to know how to adjust the battery percentage that will turn off the backlight.
cannot find anything that will do so.

now, the screen is unreadable outside when i have still 10% battery left. I'd like to adjust that 10% to about 3 or 4%.

WASIM said...

Nice tutorial..
Can I use it to change volume settings ?

Renaldi said...

nice tutorial