Android Question PhoneEvents no longer triggering

[ddk1]

I have an app that's been working for years, but just stopped working, presumably because of some Android update (v11)
I would use TTS to speak some text, detect when speech finished via PhoneEvents TextToSpeechFinish event, then do something. TextToSpeechFinish recently just decided to stop triggering.
Manifest still set to android:targetSdkVersion="28" to fend off other issues on external folders I use.

A simple example of code would be

Sub Globals
    Dim TTS1 As TTS
    Dim PE As PhoneEvents
    Dim mPhId As PhoneId
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    If FirstTime Then
        PE.InitializeWithPhoneState("PE",  mPhId)    'can't remember why I used InitializeWithPhoneState rather than plain Initialize but it makes no difference
    End If
    TTS1.Initialize("")  
End Sub
Sub btn_Click
    TTS1.Speak("testing", False)
End Sub
Sub PE_TextToSpeechFinish (Intent As Intent)
    Log("TextToSpeechFinish")
End Sub

I'm getting around it by using

Sub btn_Click
    TTS1.Speak("testing", False)
    Dim jo As JavaObject = TTS1
    Do While jo.RunMethod("isSpeaking",Null) = True
      Sleep(250)
    Loop
    Log("TextToSpeechFinish")
End Sub

But I wondered if anyone knows why PhoneEvents stopped working, and maybe my workaround will help someone else.

 

[Erel]

PE.InitializeWithPhoneState("PE", mPhId)

This will not work as it needs the sensitive read phone state permission.

Truth is that the isSpeaking based loop is much better than relying on the external intent being intercepted. Use it.

 

[ddk1]

Ok, sounds good, thanks