Media mixer should update when headphone jack is connected/disconnected

[bob-the-hamster]

Great widget! Thank you for creating it.

I wanted to report a minor bug that I noticed with the volume widget on my Nexus 5 running Android 4.4

The Media volume is tracked separately depending on whether or not something is connected to the headphone jack, for example, My media volume is all the way down at mute when nothing is connected, but up almost at max when my speaker cable is connected.

When the headphone/speaker jack changes status, the volume widget's Media mixer is not repainted. Tapping the volume up or volume down widget causes it to update, moving relative to the current actual volume instead of relative to the old displayed volume.

[adamwg]

Thanks for reporting this. The widget used to update when the volume changed due to headphone events, but in some Android release (either Jelly Bean or KitKat, I think) the system stopped sending the volume change event if the volume changed because of headphones.

What this means is to have the widget update on headphone events it would have to listen for headphone events and find out the volume when they happen. Unfortunately, widgets aren't allowed to listen for headphone plug/unplug Intents themselves, so it would be necessary to write a service that listens for the events and then calls out to the widgets to update.

Not impossible, but not a really simple fix. I might get to doing it, but (obviously, given how long it's taken me to reply to this) not right away.

[bob-the-hamster]

No worries :) it is only a minor inconvenience, and I have gotten used to
it. I still use the widgets all the time

On Saturday, December 26, 2015, Adam Wolfe Gordon notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thanks for reporting this. The widget used to update when the volume
changed due to headphone events, but in some Android release (either Jelly
Bean or KitKat, I think) the system stopped sending the volume change event
if the volume changed because of headphones.

What this means is to have the widget update on headphone events it would
have to listen for headphone events and find out the volume when they
happen. Unfortunately, widgets aren't allowed to listen for headphone
plug/unplug Intents themselves, so it would be necessary to write a service
that listens for the events and then calls out to the widgets to update.

Not impossible, but not a really simple fix. I might get to doing it, but
(obviously, given how long it's taken me to reply to this) not right away.

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