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pilot51 / voicenotify

Android app that speaks notifications
https://voicenotify.app
Apache License 2.0
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Behaviour of VN on Screen-off state #8

Closed eirinaios closed 11 years ago

eirinaios commented 11 years ago

I'm experiencing a problem with the screen-off state in Voice Notify settings. I would like to have my notifications read aloud only when my phone's screen is off (or in lock screen). But if I enable only "screen off" and not "screen on" state, then when say I receive a text message, VN starts reading it, but stops as soon as the screen turns on! So for example, if it was supposed to read out "Go SMS Pro: New text message received", it would only read "Go SM", simply because the screen turns on right after that.

Is this a problem of my device (Samsung Galaxy S4), or am I not using that particular feature correctly?

If this is the intended behavior on the other hand, would it be possible to add another state for reading notifications only when the screen is off or in lock screen?

pilot51 commented 11 years ago

That was a design decision, albeit a not very well thought-out one. I'll change it in the next release to not interrupt speech if the screen state changes to one that is disabled.

eirinaios commented 11 years ago

Thanks!