Add a "lock screen" button to the Consumer app template #49
Description
Situation
Currently, the first time UX for the pay-to-play livestream consumer app works such that the only user interactions in the app are:
- User launches app
- User taps screen from Paywall view (app closes, copies address to clipboard)
- User sends enough currency to the app's address (blockchain handles this)
- User launches app again (app loads Channel Selector view)
- User selects channel from **Channel Selector" view (app loads selected channel)
- User taps screen from Livestream view (app reloads **Channel Selector" view)
Complication
Basic user testing highlighted that on occasion, the user tapped the livestream screen by mistake, which closed the app.
On some occasions, the operating system raised a warning to the user that the app was closing very frequently.
Such behaviour has been described as "dodgy" by one user (not on github).
Proposed Resolution
A proposed solution is to implement a semi-transparent "lock" button, which if pressed, would disable any touches on the screen, allowing uninterrupted ability for the user to achieve their primary use case which is to watch livestream content.
If a user wishes to interrupt their watching of livestream content, they could simply tap the "lock" button, which would unlock the full controls.
Example Use Case
This kind of functionality would be especially useful for people listening to livestream music, and would allow them to lock their phone, and put it in their pocket while listening on headphones.