element-hq / element-hq/element-x-android

No way to enforce the app screen lock

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T-Defect
Dominant language
Kotlin
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. Enable screen lock
2. Lock the phone using power button
3. Unlock the phone within a short period

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?
Element X is locked

#### What happened instead?
Element X is unlocked

Basically, there's no way to ensure the app is locked, other than waiting the timeout (which is unknown and not configurable)

### Your phone model

_No response_

### Operating system version

_No response_

### Application version and app store

26.09.1

### Homeserver

_No response_

### Will you send logs?

No

### Will you submit a Pull Request?

No

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

No file or test entry point is named. Start by reproducing the behavior in Element X Android 26.09.1 with screen lock enabled, then locate the app's screen-lock handling and existing tests. Done means the app can be reliably forced to lock when the phone is locked and the short-unlock behavior is covered.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
authentication, mobile, security
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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