Since Android 5.0, media players can have interactive notifications that
reside in the notification area, and offer up to 5 control buttons
(play/pause, next, previous, etc), and information about the currentlu
playing media file.
We use these notifications to get information about the currently
playing media file such as:
- artist
- track (title)
- album
- duration (length of the media file)
- play state (playing, paused, stopped)
- position
- play rate (how fast is the media file being played)
We then send this information up to the device.
On Pebble, the music app will display the title and the artist, as
well as a progress bar showing the current position. The progress bar is
animated when the media file is being played, and if it is being paused,
it displays a pause symbol.
This code will be skipped when GadgetBridge is run on a device with
Android version older than 5.0 (lollipop).
PocketCasts tells about its current media state via notifications. This
patch tries to parse incoming notifications from PocketCasts and if
successful tells the device about it. Currently supported are track and
artist.
This avoids a lot of problems because java
- does not know unsigned values
- jvm and dalvic do not internally support byte and short
- sqlite does not know them either
This should improve (not fix) #214
Still, we cannot decrypt SMS, so if you use SMSSecure as the default SMS App
you should disable SMS Notifications which enables generic notifications for
SMSSecure which are already decrypted.
- Implement the PebbleProtocol side (2.x and 3.x)
- Add Preferences for canned replies
This can be tested by enabling untested features in Pebble Settings
It lets you see and select the replies set up in "Canned Repies" on the Pebble
You will get a "NOT IMPLENTED" message on your Pebble.
THIS DOES NOT ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING USEFUL YET.
The notfification APIs now use NotificationSpec as their only parameter, which
contains all information (required and optional ones).
We no longer have separate methods and actions for SMS/EMAIL/GENERIC anymore.
The type of notification is important now, not how we received them technically.
This tries to control the last player that played a (new) song.
It is very limited since we cannot get the source of an intent.
Instead we try to guess from the Action.
The problem is that we cannot support players that use only the action "com.android.music.XXXX" and not something own.
Also try to blindly support getting spotify metadata (for testing #112)
