Android O - FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED is deprecated

KeyguardManager turn on screen if attr turnScreenOn is true, so order of methods and call requestDismissKeyguard is necessary. I use this code for activity, hope it'll help:

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O_MR1) {
        setShowWhenLocked(true)
        setTurnScreenOn(true)
        val keyguardManager = getSystemService(Context.KEYGUARD_SERVICE) as KeyguardManager
        keyguardManager.requestDismissKeyguard(this, null)
    } else {
        this.window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD or
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED or
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON)
    }
}

So according to android documentation these methods were deprecated so you need to use showWhenLocked or setShowWhenLocked(boolean) instead.

FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON

int FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON This constant was deprecated in API level 27. Use turnScreenOn or setTurnScreenOn(boolean) instead to prevent an unintentional double life-cycle event.

Window flag: when set as a window is being added or made visible, once the window has been shown then the system will poke the power manager's user activity (as if the user had woken up the device) to turn the screen on.

And FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED

int FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED This constant was deprecated in API level 27. Use showWhenLocked or setShowWhenLocked(boolean) instead to prevent an unintentional double life-cycle event.

Window flag: special flag to let windows be shown when the screen is locked. This will let application windows take precedence over key guard or any other lock screens. Can be used with FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON to turn screen on and display windows directly before showing the key guard window. Can be used with FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD to automatically fully dismisss non-secure keyguards. This flag only applies to the top-most full-screen window.

So according to documentation the reason to deprecate these methods was to avoid an unintentional double life-cycle event. You can read more about them here. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowManager.LayoutParams.html

OK so I've managed to solved it with some workaround and the help from the answer of @Umair.

As I said I'm displaying a view that was created in a background service using the WindowManager and with the code I've added to my question above, the view is displayed above all the other applications but not turning the screen on when Android version is Android 8.

The methods that now replaceing the Flags: FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON are visible to activities and not for services or for the WindowManager, and casting the context to Activity is not a good idea and will not help you :)

So What I did for now (temporary solution) is to create a transparent activity and when I'm calling to showView() method from my background service, I'm also starting the transparent activity.

In the activity - inside the onCreate method, I'm calling to the methods:

setShowWhenLocked(true) 
setTurnScreenOn(true)

and when the view is destroyed, the activity will also get destroyed with the help of broadcast receiver :) so the screen is now turned on and the view is above all the other applications.

I know that you can tell me that I can move my code that inside my service into the new activity.

The reason I did it in that way:

I'm using speech recognizer.. and when I coded it in the activity, things didn't work. I mean when the screen is locked with pattern, the activity goes to pause state and I can't get the results. so the pattern dismissed my activity..

So I decided to create a view using the window manager and it worked fine until now - when Google (Android team) decided to deprecate these flags. So this is my solution for now.. and I hope that someone will find a better solution for this problem.