NFC Ring Control blocks unlocking

[shamarama]

If NFC Ring Control is the active app when the phone locks (through a screen timeout, for example, or just manually hitting the power button) then you can no longer unlock your phone using NFC even with a successful read.

[JohnMcLear]

Any app that takes focus of nfc causes this.

This is a duplicate of the bug on the nfc ring unlock repo I think?

[shamarama]

I have seen the same thing happen with the unlock app, so wouldn't be surprised to see it reported as a bug in that app too. Do you have a 'cross-app' bug section?
One way to minimise this happening is to 'keep awake' the app, in the way that video players/games do. This makes sense for the unlock app, but maybe less so for the control app - even though they both have the same problem.

[JohnMcLear]

I can't find the issue on the Unlock app.. @shamarama can you do me a favor and see if the problem exists when you use something like NXP Tagwriter and bind to NFC on that then try to use unlock functionality?

[JohnMcLear]

The thing is NFC Ring Unlock is basically the problem here, the way we implement it's functionality is a hack around Android and we really want that functionality in Android core and as we're pushing towards that I'm a bit loathed to write a bunch of hacky code into Control to resolve an issue with another app.... y'know?