[Feature] Double tap to trigger wallpaper change

Anthonyy232 / Paperize

Paperize is a dynamic wallpaper changer application built for Android using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Material 3

https://anthonyy232.github.io/Paperize/

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[Feature] Double tap to trigger wallpaper change #53

Closed Crazy-Unicooorn closed 1 month ago

Crazy-Unicooorn commented 1 month ago

Coming from Wallpaper changer, we have more option that trigger a wallpaper change :

On unlocking the phone
Double tap on the homescreen

I would love to see these features here as well!

Anthonyy232 commented 1 month ago

I could probably do the former relatively easily.

I may be wrong, but generally there's no way to detect double tap on the home screen without using the live wallpaper approach (which personally I'm not a fan of because of the battery drain when I tried it, and it doesn't support dynamic theming for the icons) or actually being the launcher app itself. That was a long way of saying I'll look into it, but it very likely won't happen. Let me know if you (or anyone) has ideas other than those.

Thanks!

shuvashish76 commented 1 month ago

Another idea could be : Use as "Assist app" (long press the home button of system navigation bar) to trigger random/up_next wallpaper change.

Details

![ResizedImage_2024-07-11_08-44-51_2061](https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/assets/48226312/7bb1e386-0309-4eef-9149-9894b7015c69)

Anthonyy232 commented 1 month ago

I'll look into it, haven't heard of that before. Do you know where to find documentation for it?

shuvashish76 commented 1 month ago

It's usually present in your "Device settings > App & notification > Default apps > Assist & voice input > Assist app". Sorry I'm not a developer, as a reference see how this app works or take a look at the implication from this issue.

Anthonyy232 commented 1 month ago

Will do, thanks! If this doesn't require any overly invasive permissions and the play store allows me to do so, I'll probably add it.

shuvashish76 commented 1 month ago

Looks like it requires android.intent.action.ASSISTaction. Thanks for considering this feature.

Crazy-Unicooorn commented 1 month ago

I can confirm that the previous wallpaper changer I used is allowing the double tap by being a live wallpaper.

They present it as an option like so:

Since the nature of both way to trigger a wallpaper change is different, allow me to rename this issue, and open a new one mentioning this one !

shuvashish76 commented 1 month ago

As we've shortcut for changing wallpaper #51 I'm not sure double tap, assist app & all these triggers are necessary.

Assist app : You can change wallpaper while on any other app. But what's the point to view the wallpaper you've to come home screen anyway.
Double Tap (live wallpaper mode) : As @Anthonyy232 mentioned it unnecessarily drains out battery. I'm not in favor of this feature.
Double Tap (launcher app method) : I think launcher apps use "Accessibility API" to do that. Honestly this should only be used to assist users with disabilities. Though apps use this for various other features, many people considered it as "invasive permissions". Use it when it's absolutely necessary.

For all these triggers the user needs to perform the action from home screen for which shortcut is more then enough IMO.

Anthonyy232 commented 1 month ago

I agree. Keeping feature creep in mind and overall efficiency, I think I won't be adding double-tap to change wallpaper. Currently, tile and static app shortcut has been added to allow changing wallpaper. I may also add an option for pinned shortcuts for those who may find it useful. As discussed previously, I will add an option to change wallpaper on unlock/wake (https://github.com/Anthonyy232/Paperize/issues/55)

I'll be closing this!