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:

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> 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
> >
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