While using my Hourglass app for Android phones, a user made an interesting observation:
Hi
I love this open source app and using it quite often. But sometimes my phone is in my pocket and I’m listening to music and I miss the time ended notification ! The vibration is short, easy to miss, same thing for the notifications sounds. I’d find “logical” to have a continuous notification that vibrates and rings until I manually stop it (from notification bar or inside app).
Is this feature planned for a future release ?
Thanks
What a great idea! I’m glad that “bruneton” opened this issue on my issue tracker. That’s part of the beauty of open source. Sure, closed source programs could take input as well, but the open source community encourages and enables it, as well as giving others the code so that they can make changes themselves!
So, I added another button:
And with that button, some new code, which you can check out in full from the commit on my GitLab, but here is the gist of it:
– // Cancel the notification.
 – mNotificationManager.cancel(0);

 – // Set the time bar back to usable.
 – timeBar.setEnabled(true);
 + if (alreYes) {
 +
 + startCount(2000,1000);
 +
 + } else {
 + // Cancel the notification.
 + mNotificationManager.cancel(0);
 +
 + // Set the time bar back to usable.
 + timeBar.setEnabled(true);
 + }
What we have here, is a repeating timer that, if the continuous alarm is set, will “repeat” by resetting the countdown to 2 seconds, over and over again, until you cancel the repeating alarm!
It seems to work well so far, but I think I can do better. So, I’m looking at adding a “Stop” or “Cancel” option to the notification pop up. We’ll see, but for now, it does repeat rather nicely!
Linux – keep it simple.