[TIMOB-15324] Android: Expose the status of the current activity (foreground or background) to module developers

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	High
Status	Closed
Resolution	Fixed
Resolution Date	2013-10-28T21:24:30.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	2013 Sprint 22, 2013 Sprint 22 API, Release 3.2.0
Components	Android
Labels	module_module, qe-testadded
Reporter	Ping Wang
Assignee	Ping Wang
Created	2013-09-23T23:56:08.000+0000
Updated	2013-11-20T00:08:06.000+0000

Description

Cloudpush module wants to know if the current Titanium activity is in the foreground which is between a call to onResume() until a call to onPause().

Comments

Ping Wang 2013-10-23

PR: https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/pull/4836 For FR: 1. Create a new module.

   ~/titanium_mobile/dist/mobilesdk-3.2.0-osx/mobilesdk/osx/3.2.0/titanium.py create --platform=android --type=module --name=test --id=com.appcelerator.test --android=~/android-sdks/

2. Add a new method in the module source file test/src/com/appcelerator/test/TestModule.java:

   
   	@Kroll.method
   	public boolean isCurrentActivityInForeground()
   	{
   		return TiApplication.isCurrentActivityInForeground();
   	}

3. Add the above module to a mobile project and paste the below code to app.js.

   var test = require("com.appcelerator.test");
   
   var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
   	backgroundColor: "white"
   });
   
   var b = Ti.UI.createButton({
   	title: "isCurrentActivityInForeground"
   });
   
   b.addEventListener("click", function(){
   	alert("foreground: " + test.isCurrentActivityInForeground());
   });
   
   win.add(b);
   win.open();

4. Run the project. Click the button. Should see an alert "foreground: true".

Paul Lv 2013-10-29

[~pwang] [~hpham] Could you please let me know when and which version of Titanium SDK I can use, that contains this code change? I may want to implement this on ti.cloudpush side earlier.
Ping Wang 2013-10-29

[~plv], the PR was merged yesterday so it should be in the latest [CI build](http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#master)

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