On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because the majority of apps don't play audio. > > E.g. I checked TripCase, and the volume buttons change the media volume. I > think the average user expect their volume buttons to change their ringer > volume at all times. > > Maybe we could even go as far as making the media plugin change the media > volume only when a sound is playing? > This would be awesome, and match user expectations. In the mean time, however, I would rather a media application adjust media volume always than never. I think a default cordova application should adjust phone ring volume, but if it has the Media plugin installed, perhaps the default should change to media, aka, change the setting to rely on a <preference>, but add that preference to the Media plugin, instead of mobile-spec. > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm still unclear as to why it's a bad default. > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > How about: > > > 1. Make the default not setting it. > > > 2. Add a pref that will change it to media volume. > > > 3. Set that pref in mobile spec, and advertise it in Media's > > documentation. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Default is the Phone Button for things that aren't games. Given the > > >> fact that we have an Audio API, I would like to see the default be the > > >> media volume. This is because I want to easily be able to adjust the > > >> volume before Mobile-Spec plays the test sound. Of course, this > > >> should be configurable. > > >> > > >> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > > >> >> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Andrew Grieve < > [email protected]> > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> > Filed JIRAs for this but wanted to see if anyone thinks this > isn't > > the > > >> >> way > > >> >> > to go: > > >> >> > > > >> >> > 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6153 > > >> >> > Don't automatically hook up the volume buttons to media volume > > >> >> > > >> >> That's a good default as opposed to hooking it up to alerts volume, > > or > > >> >> having it not work at all. > > >> >> > > >> > > > >> > From my experience as an Android user, most apps have the volume > > buttons > > >> > hooked up to the phone's volume, and only games / music apps adjust > > the > > >> > media volume. I haven't checked yet what the default is (e.g. if we > > don't > > >> > set it at all), but I suspect it would be the phone volume. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > > > >> >> > 2. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6154 > > >> >> > Remove "showkeyboard" and "hidekeyboard" events. > > >> >> > > >> >> Do these events actually work? I believe that they were broken in > a > > >> >> past version of Android. It'd be good to delete > > >> >> LinearLayoutSoftKeyboardDetect if this didn't work, otherwise I > think > > >> >> we should definitely keep these events since we can use it to > attempt > > >> >> to fix a really annoying bug with the Keyboard and Full Screen > apps. > > >> >> > > >> > > >
