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Good morning

Quick question for you

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I am working on an app that would have an option to receive a fake phone call

Most phones have different screens than each other when there is a call coming in

Is there a way to have a phone do their default thing, or do I need to fake something?

I have no idea how you would bring up the in-call screen without a real call

For example, date gone bad, hit a button and 30 seconds later your phone rings with the caller id showing your designated caller. Aww, that is what I was afraid of

for starters, each implementation would have its own package/class names

well, in that case, the date probably doesn't know what the real in-call screen looks like

unless the date is a serious Android fan

But isn't everyone a serious Android fan? :)

make 2-3 fake screens that resemble stock ones for popular "standards"

AOSP, HTC, Samsung perhaps

choose a default based on device manufacturer

allow the user to override via SharedPreference

Lol, sometimes the simple answers are the best

That makes a lot of sense

I have never worked with SharedPreferences so that alone is reason enough for me to try it

I love getting to dabble into new bits of Android (well, new to me at least)

Ok, second question, according to Mashable (http://mashable.com/2011/08/11/911-text-video/) 911 will be able to accept text and video. Is there a way to go text to speech and have it "injected" over a video without actually being heard by the people around?

Let me explain that a little better and give you a why so it makes sense

Say a bank robbery is taking place. Someone hits the "magic 911" button on the app and it starts recording, gathers gps, says it on the video but not really outloud to keep the person from being shot, and then sends to 911

a bank robbery is taking place

oh, no, wait, you didn't really mean for me to say that

:-)

hehehe

well, first, I'd think about the standards

I suppose it could turn down the media volume and say it, but I don't know if the internal mic would catch it

if the video winds up being in something conventional like MP4, I'd focus on adding GPS via metadata

Ahh ok good call

(meaning another thing I need to figure out how to do)

:)

I don't see where MediaRecorder.AudioSource would support you feeding in audio yourself

let alone blending it with microphone input

in principle you could do that yourself with ffmpeg or something

but the metadata route would be much simpler

Ok, and I really don't want it to be something too intensive since it would be something that should be a shoot and send instead of shoot, process, edit, and send

yeah, trying to blend in your own TTS voiceover is probably going to take some time

That is the extent of my questions for the moment I believe

OK

I need to find a site that has a lot of open source code and gather some ideas to do something special with this app

well, that's it for today's chat

next one is Tuesday, 4pm Eastern

have a pleasant day!