Pause android app

[Dzmitry]

Hi,
I need pause my android app (press home button programmatically). I have plugin with
Home.java

package org.apache.cordova.plugin.home;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;

import android.content.Intent;

import org.apache.cordova.CallbackContext;
import org.apache.cordova.CordovaPlugin;

public class Home extends CordovaPlugin {

    @Override
    public boolean execute(String action, JSONArray args, CallbackContext callbackContext) throws JSONException {
        if (action.equals("goHome")) {
            try {
                Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
                i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
                cordova.getActivity().startActivity(i);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                return false;
            }
            callbackContext.success();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

home.js

cordova.define("cordova/plugin/home", function (require, exports, module) {
    var exec = require('cordova/exec');
    var Home = function() {};

    Home.prototype.goHome = function(successCallback, errorCallback) {
        return exec(successCallback, errorCallback, 'Home', 'goHome', []);
    };
    var home = new Home();
    module.exports = home;
});

and my plugin.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<plugin xmlns="http://www.phonegap.com/ns/plugins/1.0"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    id="org.apache.cordova.plugin.home.Home"
    version="0.1.0">
  <name>Home</name>
  <description>Cordova Homebutton Plugin</description>
  <license>Apache 2.0</license>
  <keywords>cordova,Home</keywords>
  <asset src="www/Home.js" target="Home.js" />
  <js-module src="www/Home.js" name="device">
    <clobbers target="window.Home" />
  </js-module>
  <!-- android -->
  <platform name="android">
    <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/manifest/application">
      <activity android:name="org.apache.cordova.plugin.home.Home"
          android:label="@string/app_name">
        <intent-filter>
          <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
          <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
      </activity>
    </config-file>
    <config-file target="res/xml/config.xml" parent="/*">
      <feature name="Home">
        <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.plugin.home.Home"/>
      </feature>
    </config-file>
    <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/*">
      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
    </config-file>
    <source-file src="src/android/Home.java" target-dir="src/org/apache/cordova/home/" />
  </platform>
</plugin>

and when I call 
cordova.require('cordova/plugin/home').goHome(function () { 
                        console.log("Successfully launched home intent");
                    }, function () {
                        console.log("Error launching home intent");
                    }); 
I get "Error launching home intent". This problem makes me crazy for several days. Can you help me?

[Kaloyan]

Hi Dzmitry,

Thank you for reaching our forums.

In order to import a custom plugin inside AppBuilder project, first make sure it meets the requirements. If it doesn't, you can check this article about making custom Cordova plugins, as well as our documentation about that matter.

Further, I didn't find another way to pause the application on Android devices, apart from using custom plugin.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Kaloyan
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