Network Type Indicator

Submitted by Adjel

When roaming no network type is indicated.

Device: Nexus 5

NOTE: Not a bug report, misunderstanding on my part

Starting with Marshmallow (API level 23, Android 6.0) READ_PHONE_STATE is considered a dangerous permission (and as a result it can be revoked by the user at any time) but at the same time it is no longer required to check connection status.

Should restrict it to old API levels (NOTE the API documentation don’t mention this requirement anymore, but old devices DO require it).

Re-do icons with bigger symbols

Suggested by Adjel and Vel

Indicate connection status on notification icon

Necessary to indicate mobile data on/off in icon

To ease propagating changes to all densities

ldpi and hdpi icons have a non-integer relationship to the other sizes, hence resizing involves antialiasing.

Design icons for these sizes when re-designing icons.

Reported by Marcel Bokhorst

Starting with Lollipop notifications are shown in the lock screen expanded, and their
contents will be hidden if public visibility isn’t set explicitly.

Android (Lollipop API21 and up) now support vector based assets and Android Studio/Gradle 1.4 will convert to PNGs on compilation for backwards compatibility.

Should replace the current SVG+scripts method to the integrated one.

Android Studio / Gradle support the use of build “flavors” with different code, plus Android apps support versioned resources, so the two branches can be merged into a single one taking advantage of that.

Currently, pre-Honeycomb, the theme is based on the old default theme, post-Honeycomb it’s based on Holo.

However starting with ICS there’s also a DeviceDefault theme that makes the app look more integrated (i.e. it looks like Holo on older devices, and like Material on newer ones).

It doesn’t make sense to load on boot if we won’t be displaying the notification.

Nowadays it’s common practice to have apps with light themes by default

Should be very careful to stay within Google’s AUP though

Events are handled in different groups, it makes sense to handle them in as few listeners as possible (where they can be logically grouped)

This setting is shown regardless of version but it has no effect on older Androids since they don’t support notification actions.

This should prevent task killers from reaping it as easily

The manifest file can be modified to provide a back button (usually an arrow on the top left) when an activity is launched.

Use it for the settings and donations activities.

AboutDialog, DonationsActivity and TogglePreference can be moved into a separate module since they can be used (or are already being used) verbatim by my other apps.

Requested on Google Play

Apart from DC-HSPA+ ( FS#238 ) there’s three extra types: GSM, TD-SCDMA and IWLAN.

Affects new droids and old droids branches.

Has never been reported in the developer console.

Requested by Alex.
Bug report also submitted by Martin.

Please add support for DCHSPAP network, it displays as unknown.
Some phones display it as DC.

Feedback from Hassan Ramli:

Hassan Ramli 24/10/2014 11:58

I like it better when there's no option to open network setting and disable
notification at the status bar drawer

Feedback from Evgenij Gerasimov:

Evgenij Gerasimov 28/10/2014 7:08

Useful app but New submenu ('Network' and 'Remove notification' buttons), right under
regular notification is not a thing I'd like to see everytime I open a notification area.
Mainly because it's useless at all and takes too much place.
There should be an option in the app that would allow not to show this submenu, I think.

Add as a configurable option

More modern UI elements. Only supported in Android 4.0 (API level 14) and up.