Detect power button long press

Question

I\'ve been reading some posts here on Stackoverflow, and I didn\'t find a good solution, I\'m wondering if it\'s possible to detect when the user long press the power button

Answer 1

You can catch the power button event by overriding onKeyDown method

@Override
    public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        if (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_POWER) {
            Log.e("key","long");
            /*//disable the system dialog
            Intent closeDialog = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS);
            sendBroadcast(closeDialog);*/
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Power",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    }

As my knowledge we can't do this outside activity (such as background service)