Accessibility Services - temporarily disable with volume change

[vpha91]

Regarding the volume control issue on some TV models when turning the Accessibility on. There is another app called tvQuick Actions pro (Quick Start Guide - tvQuickActions Docs) which addresses the volume issue by temporarily disabling accessibility services for 10 seconds when the Volume (+) or (-) is pressed. Do you think you could implement a similar workaround for QuickBars? Probably would help make your app work for most TV manufacturers.

[Trooped]

Interesting.

I have not thought about this workaround, I wonder 3 things that could affect how we implement this:

1. If all Android TV devices have the same key codes for the volume buttons (a number that represents the current key, so the OS can identify the key). For example - the center_dpad's key code differs between manufacturers.
2. Does it really disable the accessibility service? Like - the actual service in the settings? Or only the Trigger Keys mechanism?
3. If all of the above is solved - why does it require to press once on either volume button, and only then it disables the accessibility service in his implementation?
   It seems like it can be done easily by recognizing there's a long click on the volume button, and then disable the accessibility service.
   Or - maybe, if a key is already pressed, we can't register it as a hold due to some hardware limitation, and that's why he approached it like this...

If you, or someone else could chime in and help answer some of these questions it would be great.

EDIT: Can you please open a discussion about it in Ideas?
From now on - new features will first be discussions, but I'll leave yours as open here.

[vpha91]

Yes, definitely, will open a discussion.