Clock Alignment Control Needed

[Firefairy]

This is somewhere between a feature request and a bug fix. If the Alignment of the clock is set to center using a non-Xposed setting, the custom format from Xui is lost. Using an Xposed module (in my case, XBlast) to also "change" the alignment to center fixes the problem, but most of the mods that include this feature are the large AIO conglomerations of features. Adding Alignment to Xui's options would be much preferable.

[zst123]

I did have a look at GravityBox's source code a few months back. However, I gave up after an hour since its codes are so messy..
If you know any (cleaner) open-source code, please inform me and I'll look through it

[Firefairy]

Okay, will keep an eye out.

I tried some other mods, and it seems there are multiple methods of centering the clock, and not all of them fix this. You might try contacting FemBlack and seeing if she is open to sharing the relevant bit of code. She credits another coder for some source code, so she might be willing to share one small chunk.

If you can figure out why the format is Alignment-dependent, that would solve the bug aspect of this as well.

[ahstro]

@zst123 OmniROM has a feature which centers the clock. I can't be bothered digging through the code right now, just thought I'd tip you off in case you felt like working on this feature. I might give it a shot myself in the future.
Did you just skip the GravityBox code because it was messy or was there something in that didn't work?

[zst123]

@Firefairy
The reason the format doesn't work for centered clock is because ROMs usually don't center the clock. They hide the right clock and show another clock in the center.

For example,
Some ROMs have a center clock feature which hides the com.android.systemui.statusbar.policy.Clock and shows a com.android.systemui.statusbar.policy.ClockCenter.java.

I hooked only Clock.java, thus ClockCenter.java is not hooked. This is the same problem for multiple ROMs but with differing class names.

(If I'm not wrong it was SlimROM JB that I saw the ClockCenter, but I'm recalling from memory now)

@LumenTeun
GravityBox's codes are messy now since it contains multiple clock mods. The center clock feature actually relied on another clock feature (forgot what it was exactly). It also hooked the status_bar.xml which might not be so compatible (some manufacturers like Samsung renamed it to tw_status_bar.xml and other variants). I actually wanted to implement this some time ago but I keep pushing it forward because of the possible xml compatibility problem and messy code :P

I have just looked at OmniROM's center clock feature and realized that GravityBox's version is easier to implement. OmniROM's one needed the status bar xml to be modified which is quite difficult in Xposed. omnirom/android_frameworks_base@970bcf5