Phone: Enable Material You Pill icon in Notification Bar

[ZanzDroid]

Summary

For a while, a call in-progress showed up as a Pill or Tidepod in the notification bar, and had a different appearance in the notification dropdown. Currently, there is a floating avatar for calls in progress. The incoming call popup-up interface also looked cleaner.

Solution

Re-enable the notification bar "Pill" icon, and the newer (Android 12+) interface for incoming, and ongoing calls.

Examples

The first two images show the difference in the pop-up notification for incoming calls. I prefer the newer method where the answer & hang-up buttons are icons, rather than the partial words with "...". The last three images show two with the floating avatar, and one with the pill icon in the notification bar. Currently the Phone app is using the style I don't like.

Alternatives

I would like if the DialerMod could give a choice of which interface to use, and modify the phenotype.db database accordingly.

Context

It looks much cleaner. It was enabled in late 2021, then removed for a number of months. It returned briefly in late 2022, then mysteriously disappeared again. The floating avatar for ongoing calls is annoying, as is the pop-up when there is an incoming call. I know both are available in the Phone app, because for a month or two it showed up on one of my Pixel phones, but not the other. Both were Pixel 6 phones, running the same version of the Google Phone app.

[jacopotediosi]

The enable_android_s_notifications flag seems a good start
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[ZanzDroid]

@jacopotediosi

That seems to have done the trick. Thank you!

[fillwithjoy1]

Should this be closed for inactivity?

[jacopotediosi]

Should this be closed for inactivity?

I'm keeping this open as a reminder for myself, to eventually implement a suggested mod for that flag.

Currently, I'm rewriting locally a major part of the codebase (migrating the sqlite things to a libsu RootService, moving fragments operations to async threads, etc). Please don't expect new features until then, because this work is needed if we want to support multiple Google Apps other than the dialer, which is my priority right now.
Given I'm not an android developer, I'm learning how to code all of this, and the complexity here is high (e.g., not all apps in the world needs to edit files outside their data folder), so expect long delays.

[fillwithjoy1]

Should this be closed for inactivity?

I'm keeping this open as a reminder for myself, to eventually implement a suggested mod for that flag.

Currently, I'm rewriting locally a major part of the codebase (migrating the sqlite things to a libsu RootService, moving fragments operations to async threads, etc). Please don't expect new features until then, because this work is needed if we want to support multiple Google Apps other than the dialer, which is my priority right now. Given I'm not an android developer, I'm learning how to code all of this, and the complexity here is high (e.g., not all apps in the world needs to edit files outside their data folder), so expect long delays.

Gotcha. I might make a pull request but I haven't really worked with Java 😅