should the launcher hide phone app while ringing

asked 2015-12-04 19:48:45 +0300

pawel gravatar image

updated 2015-12-07 20:19:49 +0300

i got an incoming call, i did an unintentional swipe up (or i had already the launcher open, cant remember, but both usecases are valid) and the launcher did hide the phone app.

is this intentional or a bug?

remark: while the launcher is activated, you can't see who is calling you. so if you are not in do not disturb mode, you might want to know that detail

edit: it is consistant in that way, that no starting application does hide launcher

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If you mean the application launcher grid, I think that's intentional. You know, it's now available from everywhere :)

jollailija ( 2015-12-04 21:07:56 +0300 )edit
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I should agree with pawel, ringing state should disable launcher, unless you minimize phone app manually.

coderus ( 2015-12-04 21:58:34 +0300 )edit
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I can see a possible use of this if you needed to start a call recorder before taking the call.

Andy Branson ( 2015-12-04 23:44:59 +0300 )edit
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Cool! Didn't realized this feature! Call recording before you accept the call is a good example.

hoschi ( 2015-12-04 23:58:54 +0300 )edit

I had the first comment which suddenly got deleted, no Idea why!

So let me get this straight. Assuming you are performing some important task and do not want to lose precious time or be distracted too long in your workflow, you might want to be able to discard any incoming call by simply returning to your app or launch whatever was on your mind next anyway! I would be annoyed to have to interact with the caller app just to discard a call or silence it, because these are the only to options we have got right now. The current behaviour apparently lets me have the call ringing still to get a glimpse of how the caller assesses the situation and its importance and I can still move on with my task. If you want to force interaction with the caller app, that would mean to either discard the call, which the caller would notice (absolute NO GO situation, no discussion here for implications) or silence the call (losing any indicator about it until the call again interferes with workflow and signals a missed call) the third option would be to only able to access launcher after minimizing the caller app introducing one additional step in the interaction. Why would anyone want that?

I hope I was not too harsh and could make things clear.

BR

MoritzJT

MoritzJT ( 2015-12-05 04:16:22 +0300 )edit