Group calls to ring a bell on Android

[alexander-potemkin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently there is no way to become aware of the conference call that is happening on the room you are in.

Describe the solution you'd like
Use OS's default call ring mechanism to ring a bell when conf. call with Jitsi is happening. Like it's done on iOS Element's client.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I considered all I could, but, I believe, there is little could be done - custom notifications won't work on encrypted channels + it's not the same level of 'noiseness' as a call.

Additional context
From what I understood, Jitsi call is a special event (.im.vector.jitsi?) - it would be absolutely lovely for this event to raise the same level of noise, as a regular 1:1 call, as otherwise people keep missing group calls all of the time.

Thanks in advance for any considerations or thoughts sharing!

[alexander-potemkin]

There is a pull request implementing this feature on Element Android.

I'm not sure how promptly it might be picked up - is there any chance it could be merged into SchildiChat directly?

[alexander-potemkin]

@SpiritCroc , I'm not sure if you are the right person to tag - if not, and it's not too much to ask, may I ask you to introduce that person?

[SpiritCroc]

If someone PRs it here in a upstream-merge-friendly way (e.g. I see some string changes in here which should go into strings_sc.xml, and some connectivity to upstream code which can be reduced), I may consider it. Though it's not a feature I'm personally interested in, so if it causes too many merge conflicts in the future I may want to drop it again.

[alexander-potemkin]

@SpiritCroc , sure and thanks!
@Turubaev could you please, do the PR, addressing concerns raised above, so that the functionality in question would be comfortable to be maintained?

[Turubaev]

#250

[alexander-potemkin]

@SpiritCroc , as the PR has been pulled - please do let us know on anything that has to be adjusted (if anything, surely), so that you could accept this functionality comfortably.

I do understand the difficulties that might happen with maintaining functionality not in the upstream, and I would like to be sure that you are good with it.