1181614 - Augment existing notifications API to use notification LED if the device has one

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

Right now devices with a notification LED such as a Nexus 4, 5, or even the SONY Z3C look 'dead' if a notification happens and the user wasn't looking / listening to the device.

In Android you can enable this pulse light using the Notification API: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html#ledARGB

It'd be great if Gaia could use this feature too -- and being able to specify a desired colour would also be very cool.

Another option would be to have a new API that lets developers access the LED by itself. It would be a good complement to the upcoming Push API: http://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/

Note: I also found this other bug but it is not clear to me if it means the flash light or the notification led, as there are mentions to torch all over there: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065404

Comment 1

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

Bug 1065404 is about the LED, yes. But I think it's a slightly different use case you ask for, even if both would share the same backend implementation.