App seems to stop working when the screen goes to sleep
<p>I have a CPU intensive long-running operation (a few hours) that I am using AsyncTask to perform. As it continues, it updates a progressbar on the screen to show what percentage of the task is done.</p>

<p>I discovered that when my screen goes to sleep (time-out) the task seems to stop. Not sure whether this is happing because the AsyncTask stops or it gets stuck at trying to update the screen (latter I am thinking).</p>

<p>Other than never letting the screen sleep, how else can I prevent my AsyncTask to stop executing? And if that is the only way, then how do I make sure that the screen doesn't sleep?</p>

<p><strong>EDIT</strong>: I must add that I know this sounds like a non-user-friendly app as commented by someone below. This does a very specialized task (processes thousands of image files to compare processing on different systems) and <strong>is to be used by a few users internally, not for public release.</strong></p>
