Another use case for having flash LED control would be the ever-popular "flashlight" apps.
- Josh On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Dave Huseby <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Would this API include the camera flash LED? I think there is an > accessibility case to be made here for having the flash LED blink for > things like an incoming call. IIRC, android and iphone already > support this and I don't see anything like that in the v2.1 > accessibility options. > > I'd really like to see an API for this. There are lots of cases where > my phone is out of my pocket and I cannot hear it (loud music, kids, > dogs, etc) but if the camera flash LED would blink, or some other LED > would blink, then I wouldn't miss any calls or text messages. > > +1 > > - -dave > > On 09/08/2014 01:02 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote: > > On 09/08/2014 12:19 PM, Alexandre Lissy wrote: > >> Le 08/09/2014 10:05, Jonas Sicking a écrit : > >>> I think we should do a few things here: > >>> > >>> 1. Introduce a privileged API for controlling the LED. 2. Let > >>> the system app use that API in order to blink the LED whenever > >>> a notification is rendered. 3. Use the API to indicate battery > >>> status (low battery, very low battery, charging) 4. Possibly > >>> enable apps to specify an LED pattern when creating > >>> notifications. > >>> > >> > >> Yep, however, the Flame currently does not have a LED that we > >> could use that easily. There is the charger led, but it's not > >> really intended for this, mostly because as far as I could test > >> hacking in sysfs, any change would work but get overwritten after > >> a couple of seconds. > > > > There's a proper HAL api to control the lights. It's probably > > overriding your hacks as soon as possible ;) > > > > See > > > http://androidxref.com/4.4.4_r1/xref/hardware/libhardware/include/hardware/lights.h > > > > Fabrice > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUDhNcAAoJEJ7v31qiCP4gRjsP/3t2gcnDp0vmJcYvIWVCabHA > RLBOf6VwGsaYCBM3jUDhhMvTfhVeK3jJhkHinU7t2B0z76DHjcLifPB6RgolPFMT > Hxb7fJllUnE0qQrLS49M+dWwLKiy76Kew0f6FD549S8fOqDtS2eHpB6uzqt96MC7 > 0IyZ7WlC8oPy3ulG7VNS6cWbi2s719q7xDVmRZm+qmMmWnN7EsO1N3zY0hS/wzGh > 1clGoYkqIwZXCu/OlUmWMz0S5geI+D8/MOVvyRAklD7ewyzqpWl8zmywXgOyNpU3 > B81cVr2Ho49qTSgRyQrwPfx6WzJYS4XSUqtQ7yYo4ZiN9ZMlPN9BQ4jEPZXM3dGI > PfT315Y2TLwq1cdCkfQxH0ZghZ4hQfdRmBKQlMn526i7Z+avLo6RXEK6f9m7ub35 > D88i7yn1zZPIsjOstoXbRqc+KT4Sp8nsgUA/zoVYEJxwjrW9TxRavnv+hRI2gM8N > EQ10JEQtPojKoRFOBrT4SZ5YMnAMTo3TmJ66sSewYCIa4eMORWDjh/rA8jSD8TZy > nPt/UfI5SQ+0aGCTxH8vbseiQ/Un+m9SlwOjndLuw2kzgkhjmqdeLXFYTfvu2kTb > FjsHJEtxqY3vjghS8VNlVKkKWa+NKMMMXw1Acm1vKK6xtngDXWp7yXdYCltaO6mc > OZzavclYiURtXqW02qhP > =uR1E > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >
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