I understand how accidentally answering the phone when pulling it out of your pocket can be annoying!

Android uses a “slide to answer” screen when the phone is ringing, and this gesture should make it difficult to accidentally answer the phone.

While technically possible, I’m wary of implementing a true “screen off” setting. I could imagine the combination of some sort of third party plug-in condition and a screen off setting causing the screen to turn off once per second, effectively locking a user out of their phone.

What is the underlying goal with this request? Could you simply set the screen timeout to 15 seconds when the phone is face up or face down, and a longer timeout in the defaults? I believe that might effectively accomplish the same end result of turning the screen off very quickly when the phone is lying flat.