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fennifith / Status

A no-root status bar replacement for Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.james.status
Apache License 2.0
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Possible support for Android O #161

Open DavideCannizzo opened 5 years ago

DavideCannizzo commented 5 years ago

Maybe this is not an issue, but, as a developer, I can suggest you a very simple workaround for the problem that Android O doesn't allow to create overlays on top of the status bar. Really, that's not true, even if the Android Developers website says it is. Indeed, I'm not sure whether it is a bug or an expected but undocumented (as far as I was able to find out on the Internet) behavior. However, if you create an AccessibilityService (no flags needed) and then you create an overlay with the usual WindowManager, with TYPE_ACCESSIBILITY_OVERLAY, with the proper flags in the WindowManager.LayoutParams from within the onServiceConnected method, you should be able to draw on top of the status bar. I'm actually doing it. And it is on top of the lock screen as well. And also on top of the ambient display! It looks like you have superpowers when using TYPE_ACCESSIBILITY_OVERLAY as a type for the overlay being created. It would be enough for you to use this type of overlay and eventually add an accessibility service to your app (I used it a long time ago and I don't remember whether it already uses an accessibility service or not) and maybe change some overlay flags. It's extremely easy. I'm actually developing an app to replace the system quick settings, which works just this way.

fennifith commented 5 years ago

I would appreciate an effort to append suggestions to existing issues when possible so that the issue tracker isn't cluttered with duplicates, so I'll merge this into #87 - but thank you for the valuable information. I don't have an Android O device to test on, so I wasn't able to test the different types of overlays as thoroughly other than confirming that the system overlays did not work, but hopefully this can become a working solution! Thank you for your help.

BrandonShihabi commented 4 years ago

Which are the proper flags? I would like to know for my own personal project as well. I am doing the same thing with an accessibility service but it just doesn't seem to work :/

DavideCannizzo commented 4 years ago

flags = FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE | FLAG_NOT_TOUCH_MODAL | FLAG_TOUCHABLE_WHEN_WAKING | FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED | FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS | FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN | FLAG_LAYOUT_INSET_DECOR;

One thing I'd like to remark is, you'll have to add the overlay view to the window manager from within the onServiceConnected method of the accessibility service or after that method is being called. If you create it, for example, within the onCreate method, it won't work.

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