Speaker mode in call

[harryandroiddev]

Default Speaker Mode
An option to automatically enable the speaker by default when a call starts. Currently, the audio route does not always default to the speaker, and enabling this by default would improve usability for our use case.

Speaker Toggle Control
A method or API to toggle the speaker on and off during an active call so that the application UI can control the audio route (switch between speaker and earpiece/Bluetooth).

[siprix]

..the audio route does not always default to the speaker.

Do you mean iOS or Android?
In case of Android when you select audio device manually it will be using as default on next call.

A method or API to toggle the speaker on and off

Current implementation allows to do that using DevicesModel::setPlayoutDevice(index)
See lines 330 and 336 in calls_list.dart

Which looks as shown on this image: audio_devices.jpg

You can also use own implementation like this one:

final devices = context.read<DevicesModel>();
int index = devices.playout.indexWhere((m) => (m.name=="Speaker"));//"Earpiece"
if(index !=-1) devices.setPlayoutDevice(index);

[harryandroiddev]

While implementing the audio output control in the application, we noticed an issue related to the list of available playout devices on iOS.

Currently, the SDK returns Bluetooth as an available playout device even when no Bluetooth audio device is connected. Because of this, the application always detects Bluetooth in the device list and shows the audio device selection menu.

Our intended behavior is similar to apps like WhatsApp:

If only Speaker and Earpiece are available → the audio button should toggle between Speaker and Earpiece.

If Bluetooth is actually connected → the audio button should open a device selection menu (Speaker / Earpiece / Bluetooth).

However, since Bluetooth is always present in the returned device list on iOS, it is difficult to determine whether a Bluetooth device is truly connected or not.

Could you please advise if there is a way to detect only the currently active or connected audio routes, instead of all possible routes, so that we can correctly implement the toggle behavior?

[siprix]

is a way to detect only the currently active or connected audio routes

Current plugin implementation doesn't have ability to detect is BT device connected.
We investigation possibility to add this.