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Most popular open source Android Alarm Clock App
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[Feature-request] Language selection and headphones bypass #336

Closed d1nuc0m closed 3 years ago

d1nuc0m commented 4 years ago

Hello, I would like to propose a couple of new features:

yuriykulikov commented 4 years ago

Hello, unfortunately both these features cannot be implemented, because Android does not allow this. Language is tied to System Language and it cannot be bypassed in a meaningful way. As for the headphones - applications simply do not know if headphones are used or not. Application uses a certain audio stream. Android decides where to route the sound.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:03 PM d1nuc0m notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello, I would like to propose a couple of new features:

  • Language selection: make it possible for the user to select the language of the UI, instead of automatically setting it to system language
  • Headphones bypass: allow the user to choose if play the alarm through the speakers even if headphones are connected to the device (sometimes it may happen to forget headphones/earphones connected and the alarm sound would be played through them) Thank you for your attention

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d1nuc0m commented 4 years ago

Hello, I thought it was possible as I had seen other apps doing that (Ghost Commander for language override and AVG's alarm clock for headphones override), thanks.

yuriykulikov commented 3 years ago

Both will be, of course, theoretically possible. But it is a lot of effort. Total commander is not an actual Android App, it is more like a port of a crossplatform app. It probably doesn't use Android language feature anyway.

As for the headphones, these kind of issues are so hard to handle on Android that I won't commit myself to implementing this. It will be so much effort and I have very limited resources. Sorry.