Headset Button Controller

Headset Button Controller is a small application that turns the button on a wired headset into a remote control for your music player - and much more!


Headset Button Controller is very configurable, allowing you to play music, change tracks, adjust volume, answer phone calls, start Voice Command and many other things, just by clicking the button on your headset.


Once you have configured Headset Button Controller with your preferences, it runs in the background using almost no CPU. It is shipped with a default configuration profile, but you can change almost every action performed. It has been tested with a wide variety of different Android devices and music apps and works with both single-button headsets, and Android-specific 3-button headsets.


Default configuration for single-button headsets (center button for 3-button headsets):
* Single press: play / pause (+ answer call / end call)
* Double press: next track (+ decline call / mute microphone)
* Triple press: previous track
* Quadruple press: disabled
* Long press: Volume control
* Press and hold: Fast forward [3]
* Double press and hold: Rewind [3]
* Triple press and hold: disabled

All of the above options are configurable to any of the following:
* Play / pause
* Next track
* Previous track
* Previous track (twice)
* Mute / unmute
* Voice command
* Voice search
* Redial last number
* Launch app
* Tasker task [1]


Additionally the long press options are configurable to any of the following:
* Volume control [2]
* Rewind [3]
* Fast forward [3]


With a 3-button headset, volume control is also configurable with the left and right headset buttons.


[1] If you have the Tasker app installed, you can specify any task - search for 'Tasker' in the Android Market to get more information
[2] While the button is held down, the volume is initially reset to the minimum limit (see below) and then raised until the button is released
[3] Not every music player app supports rewind / fast forward


--- Music app selection ---
You are able to choose which installed music app you want to control with Headset Button Controller.


--- Volume control features ---
Headset Button Controller remembers the music volume when the headphone is unplugged and can restore it when the headphone is plugged in again. You can also specify a maximum volume limit.
* Min volume limit: Start volume level of the 'volume control' command
* Max volume limit: Ensures that the headset music volume never exceeds this limit (when headset gets plugged in or when changing volume via the headset button)
* Volume control speed: Specify how fast you want the volume to be increased when using the long press option


--- Call features ---
You can configure Headset Button Controller to automatically answer an incoming call after a configurable delay. You can also control an active call with the headset button:
* answer call / end call on single press
* decline call / mute microphone on double press


--- Headset plug-in action ---
You can configure an action to be performed when the headset is plugged in (such as starting a specified app).


--- Profiles ---
You can create different 'configuration profiles' which you can easily switch between.


--- Notes ---
* Headset Button Controller cannot support the separate volume control buttons on the iPhone headset - this is a limitation of the Android framework.
* Make sure that this app does not get stopped by a task killer (the background process consumes almost no CPU).
* Headset Button Controller includes help text and a troubleshooting guide.


We appreciate your feedback - please feel free to send comments or suggestions to kober.christoph[at]googlemail.com.


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This is the full version of Headset Button Controller. To check if this app works with your phone / music player correctly, we suggest you first install the trial version of this app before buying.
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