Improve answering calls by anakin78z · Pull Request #6015

Improve answering calls by anakin78z · Pull Request #6015 · nextcloud/talk-android

Fixes some of the biggest annoyances with answering calls:

Allow answering a call from a locked phone without having to unlock the phone after answering. join call without unlock screen #1667 (kind of?)
Stop calls from ringing after answering. The ringing doesn't stop #5992
Update the incoming call notification to allow users to answer or decline. Call notification is not actually call #5922
Show caller avatar on incoming call notification

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🚧 TODO

There are a lot of other issues with calls. This is meant as some small changes that can have a big impact on usability.

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⛑️ Tests (unit and/or integration) are included or not needed
🔖 Capability is checked or not needed
🔙 Backport requests are created or not needed: /backport to stable-xx.x
📅 Milestone is set
🌸 PR title is meaningful (if it should be in the changelog: is it meaningful to users?)

Thank you for contributing @anakin78z 👍

We will review this soon (will try today but i'm on vacation next week).
As a side note, depending on if #5928 is merged first, there could be more merge conflicts.

Thanks. I'm also waiting to hear back about thstyl2000#1 since they have a massive refactor plan. I'm not sure what stage they're at with implementation though.

and i oversaw it's "just" a draft for now. Just set the state when it's ready to review and let us know if you have questions.

Switched call notification to NotificationCompat.CallStyle.
This adds answer/decline buttons to the notification
so that users can answer incoming calls.

Adds caller avatar to notification.

Signed-off-by: Jens Zalzala <jens@shakingearthdigital.com>

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This is what was causing the lock screen to appear after answering a call.

anakin78z marked this pull request as ready for review

April 3, 2026 14:32

@mahibi It doesn't look like there would be conflicts with #5928, as my code only changes call notifications, and the bubble code seems to only affect message notifications.