Short
Feature Request - When phone screen is off and music player is running, long pressing volume rockers can be used to change media volume, seek and skip tracks.
Long
Think of an informecial on TV:
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It’s raining, you walk to somewhere and have music playing through your earphones. Suddenly a track that doesn’t fit your mood begins to play in your phone. What do you do? You take out your phone out of your pocket, holding your hand over it so the drops don’t hit the screen. But no chance, your phone gets wet. Stressed and in a hurry, so it doesn’t get worse, you press the power button to get the screen going and alas, the standard music app that comes with your OpenFairphoneOS doesnt have lock screen controls! Even more stressed, because your phone starts to get soggy, you frantically wipe the lockscreen away and try to swipe down for the menu, which doesnt really work because the water droplets on your phone screen interfere with touch controls. Finally just as you manage to hit the [>>] button on screen the track you didn’t like has ended anyway.
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Now with the alll new Volume Rocker Media Controls, you can change tracks without even looking at your phone! While the phone screen is off and the music player is working, just press and the volume rocker up for two seconds and the next track comes up! Your phone stays in your pocket, no rain on screen.
Volume Rocker Media Controls features
[+] Press the Volume Rocker up as you are used to to increase volume
[-] Press the Volume Rocker down as you are used to to decrease volume
[>>|] Hold Volume Rocker up for 2 seconds to change to the next track
[|<<] Hold Volume Rocker down for 2 seconds to change to the previous track
[>>] Hold Volume Rocker up for four seconds and the player begins to search forward inside the track
[<<] Hold Volume Rocker down for four seconds and the player searches back inside the track
How to?
So, I know this exists as nearly all the roms I used have this function. How do we get this into Open FP OS? What do I need to do to make this happen?
Where I come from
2009 Motorola Droid/Milestone with MIUI and other Roms
2011 GNEX with custom ROMs like AOKP, SlimLP and Cyanogenmod, currently running 6.0.1 smoothly btw.
Always a user, never actually built anything Android, but I am willing to learn. Last line of code I wrote was C++ 11 years ago in school, so I might be a little rusty.
