Zak Reviews1d ago

Reintroducing Ceilingbounce - flashlight testing and runtime graphs for Android

In 2015, I wrote an Android app for flashlight reviewers. If you read or watch many flashlight reviews, you've probably seen graphs with a black background and a yellow line generated by Ceilingbounce. Unfortunately, the tools used to build it were abandoned by the volunteers who created them, and soon after became incompatible with the current state of Android. I couldn't release updates, and installation on new devices required developer tools. Now it's back, and more features are coming soon.

https://zakreviews.com/ceilingbounce.html

#flashlight #android #app @flashlight

Show threadplanet caravan1d ago
@zakreviews @flashlight Unfortunately, it doesn't display the graph while recording and doesn't save it to the gallery afterwards
Show threadZak Reviews1d ago
@planetcaravan1 @flashlight the sensor reads 27 in that screenshot, and you have the start threshold set to 100.
Show threadplanet caravan1d ago
@zakreviews @flashlight Thanks, I didn't notice that. Can I remove all the values ​​from there?
Show threadZak Reviews1d ago
@planetcaravan1 @flashlight no, but you can set them to zero. It requires a change in reading to trigger the start, which I may change in the future.
Show threadplanet caravan1d ago
@zakreviews @flashlight I managed to record once, but the second time after starting recording the application simply closed. Or it displays an error message like this
Show threadZak Reviews
@planetcaravan1 @flashlight It's not supposed to do that. I'll see if I can reproduce.
Mar 23 at 4:29pmWeb
Show threadplanet caravan1d ago
@zakreviews @flashlight I recorded a screen video. A friend of mine with a different smartphone model was also able to record the graph once, but the second time, the graph didn't appear on the screen during recording and wasn't saved.
Show threadZak Reviews1d ago

@planetcaravan1 @flashlight Thanks for the video. I've tried to reproduce the problem based on that and haven't succeeded so far.

If you're familiar with Android dev tools, the output of `adb logcat` during or immediately after a crash would help. If not, don't worry about it; I imagine I'll track it down eventually.

Show threadplanet caravan13h ago
@zakreviews @flashlight I can't help with the logs at the moment..
Show threadZak Reviews27m ago

@planetcaravan1 @flashlight I think I found the problem and this new release should fix it. The storage directory code was not correct.

https://github.com/zakwilson/ceilingbounce/releases/tag/v0.3.1

Release Ceilingbounce 0.3.1 · zakwilson/ceilingbounce

Fix possible permissions issue Fix threading issue that may cause crashes Clarify percent start/stop conditions Improve several settings fields

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