java - Auto logout after X minutes, Android

Question

I'm looking to implement a feature that logs out the user after X minutes of inactivity. After going through a similar answer on SO, the suggested method seems to be to -

• Have a timer running in the background. Schedule it to timeout after x minutes.
• In every function where the user interacts with the app (basically all event handlers), call a method that resets the timer.

I can't think of anything better than this myself, but it's seems to be a huge pain even for a medium sized application that has 6-7 different screens and a whole bunch of UI components. Is there a better way to handle this?

Thanks,
Teja.

Answer 1

You can use a CountDownTimer and restart it from onUserInteraction() in every Activity()