lifecycle.md

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Iris Life Cycle

There are four methods almost all screens will implement:

• create() is where you initialize your screen. Most importantly, here you will usually call iris.tmpl() with a template resource defining your UI, and using self.get() to retrieve the components in that UI that you need to interact with programmatically.

• awake() is where you can add event listeners, execute intervals or initialize heavyweight tasks as play sound or video.

• sleep() is where you deal with the user leaving your screen. Most importantly, remove event listeners or stop heavyweight tasks.

• destroy() is where you will perform operations after screen dying.