Tip: Detect user idleness

Monday, June 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM

Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)

You can use framework.system.user.idle to detect whether the user is idle and might be away from the computer.

When the user is idle, you can choose to skip operations such as HTTP requests or audio playback:

if (framework.system.user.idle) {
  // User is idle/away. No need to re-retrieve the content.
} else {
  retrieveContent();
}

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