[Patch] Volume Button Camera Trigger

[GMMan]

This patch allows you to capture photos or videos by pressing on the volume rocker instead of using the on-screen buttons. Press Vol+ to snap photo, and Vol- to record video. Press Vol- again after you begin recording to stop recording. It's simple as that.

Shout-out to eblade for bringing this up on Twitter.

BTW, I had a pain generating the patch for this. Originally this patched three files, but I can't figure out how to include a file that doesn't already exist. Then appending the new code to the end always gets rejected for no apparent reason, so now it's just sandwiched between the leading comment and the camera app code. Not pretty, but that's the only way I could get the patch to apply.

Submitting this on Preware...

[OldSkoolVWLover]

Interesting might have to do this, but I am so used to using the space bar I would probably forget about it....

I like the easy switch between camera and video though.

[GMMan]

Originally Posted by OldSkoolVWLover

Interesting might have to do this, but I am so used to using the space bar I would probably forget about it....

I like the easy switch between camera and video though.

This patch is for the Enyo version of the app. Of course, if I can get my hands on the Mojo version, I can try applying the same thing.

[eblade]

There's a patch for the Pre that does the volume button to take pics, which is where I got the idea from. I wanted to just grab a quick photo, and I had my touchpad on me right then, and I thought.. touchpad is useless for photos, but if I could snap the picture without having to touch the display, at least I could point and click and maybe come out with something useful.

So, where do we send the $5 me and someone else offered up?

[GMMan]

@eblade: Check your PMs.

[GMMan]

BTW, does anyone want me to edit this so that the volume doesn't change when the button is pressed?

[OldSkoolVWLover]

Originally Posted by GMMan

BTW, does anyone want me to edit this so that the volume doesn't change when the button is pressed?

I think that would be awesome, that's why I stopped using the volume button patch on phones personally.

[eblade]

That might require a change to Luna to do, since it interprets the volume keys before passing them on.. doesn't it?