greggnic wrote: > I see your point and definitely agree. I would really like to see a > sleep timer function for the music player though and don't think I > would be able to write a whole music player application that could > compete with the others out there...
Well, the built-in music player is open source: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Music.git;a=tree In principle, you could make a sleep-timer patch and submit it: http://source.android.com Admittedly, there is a learning curve for making changes to the source code, more so than with many open source projects, due to the unusual build environment and the unusual patch submission process. I haven't climbed that curve myself. Another possibility would be for you to create an application that let users configure sleep timers and, when the timer elapsed, broadcast an Intent that confirming applications would pay attention to and honor. You might partner with OpenIntents.org, as this seems like their sort of application, and you might be able to help get some prominent third-party applications, such as some music players, to honor your sleep-timer Intent. This requires as much people skills as coding skills, though, to convince other developers to follow your sleep-timer lead. There are probably other ways to go about this as well -- those are just two off the top of my head. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
