Screen Lock / Disable Touch

Touch Blocker prevents unintentional touch interaction with the touch screen of your device by blocking touch input. When you disable touch input while watching a movie you don't have to worry not to skip scenes by accidentally touching the screen. Also useful if you hand your phone to someone (e.g. to show them a picture) and don't want them to mess with the device.

Usage: Install and start Argus Touch Blocker and select which methods you want to use to disable/enable touch interaction with your device (I would recommend enabling at least the options 'Run In Foreground' and maybe 'Disable On Triple Tap'). Setting up these options has to be done only once. Then select 'Enable' in preferences (you may also set it to be launched automatically at each reboot of your device). You can then lock the screen by clicking the notification icon.

If you want to use this with NETFLIX: the donate version of this app has a configurable lock delay, so it should be compatible with NETFLIX without the video stopping automatically after disabling touch input.

New in version 1.7: The Force Fullscreen option (to hide notification and navigation bar) does not require ROOT permissions anymore if you have at least Android 4.4 (KitKat).

In case you are not able to block the home button the only option is to use the 'Fore Fullscreen' option of the donate version (which up until Android 4.3 requires ROOT permissions). I am sorry, but this is an limitation of Android and not a fault/bug of this app.

NEW: This version adds the option to donate to the author to unlock some new features (you can safely update, none of the already existing options will be locked by this update!). The new options (that were requested by some of you) are:

- lock the volume keys when the touch input is disabled

- hide the notification bar

- remove all ads from the app

- add a configurable delay before the touch input is is disabled (useful if you want to use it for Netflix)

- a password can be set that is required to unlock the device

- a widget to quickly easily disable touch input

- an option to go FULLSCREEN (hide navigation and notification bar) -- *ROOT* is required up to Android 4.3 to use this though

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