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Vastly underestimates app usage duration

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reproducing the report on a Google Pixel 7 Pro with ActivityWatch v0.12.1b5 from the Play Store, then inspect the privacy controls and timeline handling for the aw-watcher-android-test and aw-watcher-android-web-chrome buckets. Done means uninterrupted screen use is recorded without large gaps and the timeline no longer underestimates usage duration.

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Description

Google Pixel 7 Pro
ActivityWatch v0.12.1b5 (via PlayStore)

In privacy controls it says ActivityWatch has full device access.

In timeline there are events being reported in buckets aw-watcher-android-test and aw-watcher-android-web-chrome. The timeline reports several minutes for each activity with large gaps between events despite uninterrupted screen use in that time.

Dominant language
Kotlin
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270
Forks
57
Avg merge
23h 47m
Merged PRs (30d)
39

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