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TheLastProject / RaiseToAnswer

Simply hold your phone to your ear to answer an incoming call
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.hackerchick.raisetoanswer
MIT License
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Auto-answer #36

Closed yardenac closed 3 years ago

yardenac commented 3 years ago

I would like an option to answer phone calls automatically, on speakerphone, with zero user interaction. Would you be interested in offering this option, or accepting a PR for it?

TheLastProject commented 3 years ago

I'm not completely sure what the use of this would be. Because it answers based on proximity, you will have it near your ear when you answer. Sounds like a good way to hurt your ears by the volume difference if it would activate speakerphone?

yardenac commented 3 years ago

I want it to automatically answer without needing any proximity.

A friend of mine is in a coma in the hospital. If it wasn't for covid, a lot of us would be there next to her. But since we can't, we want to keep a phone by her bed and be able to call it, so she can hear our voices. You could call it "coma mode". :)

This is a narrow use-case, but I'm sure there are others as well. If you don't want to offer this feature, I'll try and figure out how to host a fork on f-droid myself.

TheLastProject commented 3 years ago

I am so sorry about that, that must be awful. I really hope the best for her.

Regarding your feature request, I don't think it makes much sense to add this to Raise To Answer as it is so different from the rest of the app and would likely cause confusion to many users.

There is already an apps on F-Droid which claim to answer automatically by the way, it is called AutoAnswer. Have you tried that yet?

If AutoAnswer doesn't work, making Raise To Answer do what you want would mostly involve simply removing the sensor listener and calling the pickUp code on an incoming call. For publishing on F-Droid you could go the RFP route on https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp, which means you won't have to learn F-Droid yourself.

While I won't accept code for your feature in this app myself, I am willing to answer questions you may have about this codebase. Therefore, I will close this issue but feel free to ask more questions here anyway.

yardenac commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your help. AutoAnswer is many years out of date and doesn't work on any phone I've tried it with. I will let you know if I need help forking. :)

Nickoriginal commented 2 years ago

@yardenac what about this app? Also in F-droid.

yardenac commented 2 years ago

Lol! I made that app myself as an experiment and I did a terrible job. I should probably delete it.