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Background: I have an app with notifications and I want to support LED notifications (and it's working perfectly). In my preferences, I allow the user to customize the LED notifications.
Problem: I don't want to show the LED customization options if the device doesn't support them because it can possibly confuse the user (If all you've had were cheap Androids, you have no idea what LED notification is). Is there an API that I can use to detect if the device supports it?
if there is an 'old' and a 'new' way, I'd probably prefer the old way as my lowest supported API level is 4.
Thanks
LED notification: If enabled, your phone's LED will blink for notifications when your display is off.
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A Notification LED is a small RGB or monochrome LED light usually present on the front-facing screen bezel (display side) of smartphones and feature phones whose purpose is to blink or pulse to notify the phone user of missed calls, incoming SMS messages, notifications from other apps, low battery warning, etc., and ...
On Android phones Open Settings, and scroll down to Accessibility. Under Accessibility, select 'Advanced settings' Under 'Advanced settings, scroll to select 'Flash notification' Switch on the 'Camera flash notification' toggle to enable the rear LED flash for notifications.
Is there an API that I can use to detect if the device supports it?
Alas, no, there is no API for this.
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