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I'm developing a class library for windows 10 universal apps (mobile and desktop device families only). I need to invoke an event if the user has been idle(no touch, mouse move, key press etc) for x number of seconds. This method can be used to solves this problem on android. But I couldn't find a solution on windows UWP.
Is there an API available in UWP to achieve this?
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You could use GetLastInputInfo to check how long the user has been idle and SystemParametersInfo to check if a screensaver is active. Here is a similar case for you as a reference. It includes the usage of the GetLastInputInfo.
The Idle Detection API provides a means to detect the user's idle status, active, idle, and locked, specifically, and to be notified of changes to idle status without polling from a script.
You can detect global input with various events on the app's CoreWindow:
Touch and mouse input with CoreWindow.PointerPressed, PointerMoved, and PointerReleased.
Keyboard input: KeyUp and KeyDown (the soft keys) and CharacterReceived (for characters generated via chords & text suggestions)
Use these to detect the user is active and idle out if it goes too long without any of these events.
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