Network Type Indicator

Necessary to indicate mobile data on/off in icon

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

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.

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

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

First suggested by pacibum

Add an option to open mobile network settings instead of nettype when tapping on notification.

Lollipop’s new handling of ongoing notifications makes Nettype’s notification to stay on the lockscreen.

Brought up by Andrey Simakov and Theos Greg on Google Play.

Reported by Andrew 21/8/2017 over email

[...] on my HTC 10 running Marshmallow, it fails to startup on boot.

To ease propagating changes to all densities

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).

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

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

See FS#356

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.

Submitted by Tom

No need for description

Submitted by Allan

See also  FS#221 

Display signal strength in dbm/asu in the notification

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

Should switch to a multi-apk release, where older versions of Android (pre-ICS) will only get bugfixes.

Rare reports, not reproducible, but similar causes.

Example stack trace:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create service net.outlyer.nettype.MonitorService: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: contentIntent required: pkg=net.outlyer.nettype id=1 notification=Notification(vibrate=null,sound=null,defaults=0x0,flags=0x2)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:1974)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2500(ActivityThread.java:121)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:994)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3714)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:864)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:622)
	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
	Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: contentIntent required: pkg=net.outlyer.nettype id=1 notification=Notification(vibrate=null,sound=null,defaults=0x0,flags=0x2)
	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1326)
	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1276)
	at android.app.INotificationManager$Stub$Proxy.enqueueNotificationWithTag(INotificationManager.java:274)
	at android.app.NotificationManager.notify(NotificationManager.java:111)
	at android.app.NotificationManager.notify(NotificationManager.java:91)
	at net.outlyer.nettype.MonitorService.b(MonitorService.java:201)
	at net.outlyer.nettype.MonitorService.onCreate(MonitorService.java:80)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:1964)
	... 10 more

Not reproducible. Example stack strace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at net.outlyer.nettype.MonitorService.b(MonitorService.java:316)
	at net.outlyer.nettype.MonitorService.a(MonitorService.java:292)
	at net.outlyer.nettype.l.onDataConnectionStateChanged(MonitorService.java:160)
	at android.telephony.PhoneStateListener$2.handleMessage(PhoneStateListener.java:339)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:875)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:633)
	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Reported by David

The icon and main app can get out of sync on version 1.4

Probably related to FS#255.
1.4 used separate network listeners for notification and main app, with the main app always listening for signal strength changes (and notification doing so optionally).

Suggested by Adjel and Vel

Indicate connection status on notification icon

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

Requested on Google Play