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Android: Smart Screen On is an Android utility that turns your phone's proximity sensor into a substitute power button that can turn your display on or off with a simple wave over the front of ...

Additionally, HTC's implementation allows you to turn your smartphone face-down to not only turn off the screen, but silence your alerts as well. Great for meetings!

The proximity sensor of an Android device is capable of turning off the Ambient Display as of Android O, one user running the latest developer preview of the operating system has uncovered.

Android O takes that a step further and will actually turn the display off again if the sensor is covered. Again, imagine putting the phone back in your pocket after checking ambient display.

In the 8.1 dev preview on any device, just as in 8.0 on the Pixel 2 and 2 XL, the proximity sensor has no bearing on the functioning of Ambient Display, or at least it doesn’t shut off when you ...

Smart Screen Off supports any version of Android, but it requires your phone have a proximity sensor to work (it probably already does.) You can snag it at the Android Market. What do you think so ...