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[BLARGHH123]

I've noticed something really really fundamentally wrong with this game on Android. It doesn't seem to keep the screen switched on during inactivity.

Virtually every game I've played keeps the screen on and bright during game play. This game doesn't. So my phone regularly dims and locks while waiting for a match setup or in the opening minute of the game (where nothing much usually happens). Then by the time it's unlocked and the app figures out what it was doing the game gets reset or I've lost.

It's a trivial single flag to change a games behavior to keep the screen on, API docs here:

https://developer.android.com/refere...KEEP_SCREEN_ON

I suspect that a portion of failed match creation and some claims of derank matches stem from this.

[BLARGHH123]

Keeping the screen on is in the reference code/documentation:

https://developers.google.com/games/...imeMultiplayer