Bluetooth tile: tap to connect/disconnect

[udaya2899]

@CasperVerswijvelt Thank you for Better Internet Tiles. I find this app so useful. I'd love to see a similar tap to turn on off feature for bluetooth too.

Currently, tapping on bluetooth opens the bluetooth screen (like Internet in Android 15). What I'd like to see:

2 new tiles in the app:

• Add Bluetooth tile
  • Adds a similar BIT-style WiFi tile for Bluetooth that turns on/off on tap without opening a popup screen for Bluetooth
• BT Device connect tile
  • Turning off Bluetooth fully might be less optimal because we might lose find-my capabilities or disconnect watches too while wanting to just disconnect earphones.
  • The BT Device tile on tap will disconnect the currently connected audio device only.
  • On tap again, it connects to the most recently connected audio device (if this is technically possible to find).

I'd be happy to help you in contributing to this with some guidance but I should admit that I've not developed on android, but can take inspiration from how the Internet tiles work

[CasperVerswijvelt]

Thanks for the suggestion! The first regular Bluetooth tile is actually already available in the latest beta build, you can find it here: https://github.com/CasperVerswijvelt/Better-Internet-Tiles/releases

Interesting suggestion for the second tile, certainly something I could consider. Instead of having this a separate tile, do you think it makes sense to just make the tap behaviour on the already present Bluetooth tile configurable?

[udaya2899]

Your alternative suggestion also sounds good. I personally would mostly prefer to use the "disconnect the currently connected music device" action for the bluetooth tile than turning bluetooth off fully because of smartwatches, find-my-device etc. relying on bluetooth. I'm okay with a single modifiable tile too.

The more relevant use case is:

• I have a bluetooth speaker/headphones/car stereo that I listen music to.
• I need to quickly disconnect that bluetooth speaker/headphones/car to play directly from my phone.

The key thing being that tile not connected to a pre-chosen bluetooth device but rather, tapping the tile connecting/disconnecting the "current bluetooth audio device".

I currently use this app but it can only pre-link a bluetooth device with a widget so the widget is not dynamic.