Yeah, I noticed a lot of people like to use the title.dude, we're all software engineers here
Are you retarded? I just said all of what you said but in a single sentence: "Someone to text you a special text THEN your phone works for them on the next call within 2 minutes?"i already said what i'm asking for
a phone app that allows a caller to flag a call as emergency so that the receiver can override its notification settings. the user would be able to configure incoming numbers as having emergency access so it couldn't be abused. this is easy to envision because it is already exactly what amber alerts do. i've never dealt with the call architecture in what limited app dev i've done, so idk how hard it is to write a phone wrapper class, but the rest is just ui. this way the user would not need an additional emergency phone number as they would if using a prepaid phone or google voice. however, both caller and receiver would probably need to use the app, so it would make more sense as a built-in.
i don't give enough of a fuck to develop this but since "personalized amber alert" is a simple idea i was curious whether anyone had. the fact you can't envision this makes me question your capability as an engineer.
i already acknowledged that the double-call disturb setting is an alternate and acceptable solution to this problem and that my phone doesn't have that, and that's exactly why i made the thread, to find out about shit i don't have
Yes, an app could be created that both users would have to have that could send some sort of "pre-call" warning to the other user's phone (with a "received" confirmation first) and disable the DND for that person for a period of time. However, without even touching Android/iOS app-developing, I sincerely doubt apps have access to disable DND. I mean, they might, but they probably don't, which means your phone would have to unlocked and tweaked.
It's probably not happening. Just use the fucking double-ring, dipshit. It's not rocket science.
Edit: Never mind the bit about API restriction. You can give an app access through DND access settings, so from 10 seconds of web-searching, it can be done, but I doubt anyone is going to invest the time when there is already sufficient DND-exclusions built in.
Ideally, Android would build something like this in. Each contact of yours would have the option of sending a pre-call override for emergencies.
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