Profiles API
Overview
A Profile is a device state which can be created, modified, or activated for a user based off of an environmental trigger. When you tell the system to create a profile, it will be populated within the system settings application’s Profile viewer. This hub can both be controlled by the Settings application and by a 3rd party application.
Creating a Profile
You must specify the UI information, actions, and optional environmental triggers for a Profile utilizing the methods available within the Profile
object.
To add your created Profile to the system, invoke a call to ProfileManager.addProfile(Profile)
Required Profile contents
A Profile object must contain the following:
- An identifying name, set by
setName(String)
- A
Profile.Type
, set bysetProfileType(Int)
To use these Profiles API, your application must first declare the write settings permission in AndroidManifest.xml.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
Creating and adding a simple Profile
The snippet below details how to create a Profile
object that overrides the devices ring mode settings to be muted.
Kotlin
fun createProfile(context: Context) {
// Create a new Profile object with a label
val profile = Profile("My New Profile!")
// We're a toggle!
profile.profileType = Type.TOGGLE
// Now create a RingModeSettings object and make set the mode to MUTE with an override of TRUE
val ringSettings = RingModeSettings(RingModeSettings.RING_MODE_MUTE, true)
profile.ringMode = ringSettings
// Add the Profile to the internal service
ProfileManager.getInstance(context).addProfile(profile)
}
Java
void createProfile(Context context) {
// Create a new Profile object with a label
Profile profile = new Profile("My New Profile!");
// We're a toggle!
profile.setProfileType(Type.TOGGLE);
// Now create a RingModeSettings object and make set the mode to MUTE with an override of TRUE
RingModeSettings ringSettings = new RingModeSettings(RingModeSettings.RING_MODE_MUTE, true);
profile.setRingMode(ringSettings);
// Add the Profile to the internal service
ProfileManager.getInstance(context).addProfile(profile);
}
To set the profile to be the primary active profile, you can trigger this by calling setActiveProfile(UUID)
by passing the UUID of the created Profile object.
Kotlin
fun enableProfile(profile: Profile, context: Context) {
val profileUuid = profile.uuid
ProfileManager.getInstance(context).setActiveProfile(profileUuid)
}
Java
void enableProfile(Profile profile, Context context) {
UUID profileUuid = profile.getUuid();
ProfileManager.getInstance(context).setActiveProfile(profileUuid);
}
Leveraging a ProfileTrigger
For the instances where you want to trigger a Profile based off of an environment change as defined by Profile.TriggerType
you can set a specific Profile.ProfileTrigger
on your Profile.
To create a ProfileTrigger you’ll need to populate 4 parameters, for something like a trigger based off of a WiFi access point, you can follow the model below:
Kotlin
fun getTrigger(triggerName: String): Profile.ProfileTrigger {
val triggerType = Profile.TriggerType.WIFI // This is a wifi trigger
val triggerId = trigger.getSSID() // Use the AP's SSID as identifier
val triggerState = Profile.TriggerState.ON_CONNECT // On Connect of this, trigger
return Profile.ProfileTrigger(triggerType, triggerId, triggerState, triggerName)
}
Java
Profile.ProfileTrigger getTrigger(String triggerName) {
int triggerType = Profile.TriggerType.WIFI; // This is a wifi trigger
int triggerId = trigger.getSSID(); // Use the AP's SSID as identifier
int triggerState = Profile.TriggerState.ON_CONNECT; // On Connect of this, trigger
return new Profile.ProfileTrigger(triggerType, triggerId, triggerState, triggerName);
}
As you can see we set the TriggerType as WiFI, set the SSID as the triggerId (for tracking), set the title of the access point as the triggerName, and then finally declare that we want to be “triggered” when an ON_CONNECT is given for the access point.
Get assistance
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You can also find more information in the LineageSDK javadoc.