android 11 device control

[mirsella]

Android 11 and up have "device control" which are tiles in the power menu, usually to control connected things like plug and lamps. I think it would be pretty useful to add the .shortcuts to the power menu using the device control api. thanks

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/device-control

[creepy-pasta101]

Good idea 👍💡💡

[dkramer95]

This sounded interesting! I was able to get a working POC, but will spend some more time to clean it up. Here is a sneak peek of how it could look:

termux-device-control-widget-demo.mov

Unfortunately it looks as though only an Activity can be started (which typically would display in the bottom sheet). So downside is any time you click on a button, it will briefly show that empty bottom sheet animation. I don't think there will be a way around that. But the Activity will quickly close and run whatever shortcut you supplied (just like a regular Termux widget would behave from home screen)

[mirsella]

waw that was fast ! thank you so much

[mirsella]

And about the activity if you want to bother, there seems to be ways of making an activity invisible / transparent ? Or it's not possible in this case ? I found multiple thread solved with multiple solution about this.

thank you !

[dkramer95]

I was able to get it working properly w/o that bottom sheet! I have raised a PR

[agnostic-apollo]

Closed by #55