Android Saturday APPreciation (Jun 20 2020) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

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Saturday APPreciation (Jun 20 2020) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 04:12 AM PDT

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This weekly Saturday thread is for:
* App promotion,
* App praise/sharing

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Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:45 PM PDT

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A more complete shortcut for "Hey Google, I'm being pulled over" for Android devices

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:11 PM PDT

First I want to give credit to the earlier post and all that's been said there as well as the original creator of that tutorial.

This tutorial below will create a more complete shortcut that will do the following:

Send a text message to your designated contacts with a message and your current GPS location via Google Maps link
Record video while the phone is locked
Upload the recorded videos automatically to Google Drive or other cloud service
Share the cloud folder of recorded videos with your designated contacts
Run all this while the phone is in Lockdown mode

The basic function is to allow you to record video while the phone is in Lockdown mode. This has obvious benefits over a screen with brightness set to 0. This will provide more robust function than the similar iOS shortcut "I'm being pulled over" which also just sets the screen brightness to 0.

Apps you will need:

Nova Launcher
Quick Video Recorder
Tasker or Automate (there should be other apps that can work as well)
Cloud service (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc)
Cloud auto sync app

Step 1: Make sure Lockdown mode is enabled on your phone

Open your phones Settings app, navigate to the Security & Location option. Tap Lock Screen Preferences and toggle on Show Lockdown Option from the list.

Step 2: Configure Quick Video Recorder

In Settings, you have plenty of customization on how you want the app to work. Most importantly, make sure to disable battery optimizations and to set a recording time/size limit. This allows the app to automatically end recordings so the files can be uploaded automatically. You can also allow recordings to repeat automatically if you need video recording for longer.
Toggle "Enable Do Not Disturb while recording" to On
Scroll down in Settings to Shortcut Settings, and create a Front Camera Shortcut or Back Camera Shortcut or both. This will put an Activity shortcut on your homescreen. If it doesn't, you will need to dig through Nova Launcher gestures to confirm the shortcut is created.
Click on the shortcut to test the app works.

Step 3: Configure your cloud service to auto sync the video folder

By default your videos will be recorded to the folder QuickVideoRecorder
Follow the instructions of the cloud sync app to auto sync this folder. It would be better to enable the option to detect new files automatically and upload them
Make sure to enable the app to auto sync over mobile data and while the phone is plugged in and on battery. This should not cause much battery drain if at all since it will only upload files if there's a new file added to the folder.
If there's any paid limitations like file size, consider paying to remove those limitations or finding a free app to do the same sync function

Step 4: Share your cloud folder with your designated contacts

Step 5: Configure your automation app

Now this part gets tricky depending on which you want to use. I will use Tasker as an example, but I'm sure that this can be done with Automate and other apps as well.

Open Tasker, go to Tasks tab, create new Task
Add Shortcut (+ Button > App > Shortcut) > press the magnifying glass icon next to Shortcut > Nova Launcher: Activities > Quick Video Recorder > Front camera shortcut. Save the task with label if needed
Add Location parse (+ button > Location > Get Location v2). Back out to Task Edit
Add Send SMS (+ button > Phone > Send SMS)
1. Number: Use magnifying glass icon at Number to find your designated contacts
2. Message: I'm being pulled over %gl_map_url or some other message with %gl_map_url at the end
3. Add label if needed, and go back to Task Edit
Add System Lock (+ Button > Display > System Lock)
Press the Play button on the bottom left to test your task. If everything works, your phone should execute each of these tasks in sequence. Make sure to enable permissions as needed
Select an icon for your task by clicking the icon with multiple boxes next to the + button
Create an app out of the task you just created:
1. Back to Tasker home screen, find the task you created in Tasks tab
2. Press and hold the task
3. Expand the context menu and Export > As App
4. You will be asked to download Tasker App Factory
5. In Package section, enter a random sequence of letters with a . in between (ie: oisjf.sidfwei)
6. Install the app by allowing Tasker the necessary permissions as well as allowing the app to be installed and bypass Google Play protection. This is safe since you are making your own app
You will find a new app installed on your phone with the same name as your task
Test the new app. The first time you will need to enable a bunch of permissions.

Step 6: Integrate into Google Assistant

*Note there may be limitations depending on if your Android device allows you to trigger Google Assistant while the phone is locked. This step is therefore optional and you can just use the newly created Tasker app manually.

Open Google Assistant settings from Settings app or by asking "Ok Google, open Google Assistant settings" and open your profile icon on top right
Open Assistant tab
Scroll down to Routines
Add a routine
Under "Add commands", add your trigger phrase "I'm being pulled over" or whatever you want your phrase to be
Press + Add action
Under Enter command, type in Open -name of your Tasker app- (ie: Open Pulled Over)
Save
Make sure that your Google Assistant can be triggered while your phone is locked. Here's a link to instructions on how to do this. Link

Done

If Google Assistant is not working well or your phone does not support Google Assistant triggering or some other limitation, consider a simple Nova Launcher gesture shortcut to activate your Tasker app or shortcut that records video and puts phone in Lockdown mode. For example, two finger swipe up to turn on Front Camera Shortcut activity and two finger swipe down to Screen Lock (make sure to give Nova Launcher admin permissions to use Screen Lock shortcut).

Important: As mentioned above, the confusing Tasker bit and implementing with Google Assistant is very much optional. It's here to create a seamless flow of events triggered by your voice. But if your Android phone has weird integration with Google Assistant or it won't trigger while locked, it could get annoying. You'll also need to unlock your device for Google Assistant to trigger an app, requiring you to have an easily accessible fingerprint scanner or face unlock.

Remember, reliability is key. If it doesn't reliably work, you're better off using the Front Camera Shortcut/Back Camera Shortcut directly and then putting your phone in Lockdown mode. Or using the Nova Launcher gestures example above.

There's more actions you can add to this as well, such as turning off music, sending periodic GPS location pings, etc. If you're rooted there's probably a whole bunch of crazy things you can do. Tinker at will.

The process is more complicated than a simple Google Assistant routine but this is probably the most feature rich implementation of this idea. Keep in mind there are obvious limitations to this shortcut such as your phone runs out of battery, the SIM card is removed, etc.

As far as installation it is possible to simply export the Tasker task APK and allow people to install it. For the sake of being as trustless as possible, I hope you will make your own apps instead.

I created this separate post because I didn't want all this to get buried in the comments section. It's also a bit long to dig through as a comment post.

As said in the other thread, make sure to abide by the law and know your rights.

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