[Android Apps and Games] bigsupersquid:
Google Now voice input FC's (force-closes) on armv6 devices. Boo. Hiss. Part of the lib works, 'listen to tv' works.

Hotword detection is completely borked on armv6. Luckily you can turn it off in Google Settings after Now is installed or it'll FC like crazy too.

If you're into this kind of thing you may remember how cool it was when people got Google Now with Voice Search working for armv6 devices.

It doesn't work anymore on newer releases of Now.

The ics voice search assistant only works on Google Now (Velvet.apk) up to version 2.0 and Now is currently over v3.

So, I wanted to make something like the old search assistant for the current version of Google Now, since my lovely Optimus V obsolete phone is still kicking with Android 4.2.2 CM-11 unofficial.

I enjoy the voice controls. It's geeky. It's fun. It's somethiIng those uppity newer phone users lord over us cheapskates and diehards.

Even though Google Voice Search is froyo-era software, and online-only, it can still be used by Intent.

So...

I made an app. Widget actually. Press it, wait for the Voice Search box, and talk. It reroutes the transcript to Google Search (Now.) That includes OK Google commands, like 'call 555 555 1212' 'weather' etc. list of commands here and here

I couldn't get all the easter eggs to work, they may be in the hotword detector or libvcdecoder. Some do work though.

The talkback from Google Search still doesn't work with this gimmick. But you can talk into it at least.

This does not fix the mic icon on the Google search bar. Only allows a workaround for voice input via widget or long-press search key,

See this post to get around that.

Thanks again to Dovidhalevi for that tip.

Installation:

Get Voice Search on Play

get the apk from post 2, and install it.

If youve already got Google Now version 3.10 or higher sideloaded you can skip this next bit, go straight to fixing the Google Now settings.

I haven't been able to get either the launcher or Search to work installing from Play.

The Easy Way

Sideload the official apks from somewhere like androidpolice, and then you don't have to push anything to /data.

Here's the androidpolice 3.3 article with a download link.

The Harder Way

Get Now (and the launcher if you see fit) from the gapps here.

G Now is four files. /system/priv-app/Velvet.apk (chmod 644)

and three libs from /system/lib

libvcdecoder_jni.so, libgoogle_recognizer_jni_l.so, and libgoogle_hotword_jni.so (chmod 644)

(thanks to Dovidhalevi for pointing out the libvcdecoder.jni.so, I had missed that one.)

the launcher is /system/app/GoogleHome.apk (chmod 644) but it's not required.

you can 'adb install' Velvet, then adb push the three libs to /data/data/com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/lib if you don't have space on /system.

Fix Google Search Settings!

once those files are installed,

1) immediately go into Google settings > Search & Now > Voice > "Ok Google" hotword detection, and turn it off.

2) Then back up one menu to Google settings > Search & Now > Voice, open Language and set it to something obscure like Hungarian (this avoids nasty FCs that happen to some users, thanks again Dovidhalevi for the tip!)

Important: If Search keeps closing on you, you need to make sure you changed the language in Google settings as listed in #2 from the previous paragraph.

If there's no setting to turn off hotword detection, the version is too old. try v3.10 or newer.

still get Search force closes? @rar**** posted a fix.

Usage:

The first time you run it there will (well, should) be a dialog asking what you want to use. Select Voice Search, Always.

(If there's not a dialog asking what to run for this action, go to Settings >Apps > Google Search and clear defaults. If that doesn't do it, clear defaults for Voice Search and VoiceSearchWrapper too.)

The widget can be activated by long-press search button. Another dialog should pop up. Select VoiceSearchWrapper, always.

Just tell it what to do, like after the hotword on a newer device. Instead of "Ok Google, weather" just say "weather."

This thread is to debug the apk. I've already gotten some great help from Dovidhalevi for the language settings, and Rar**** for the more comprehensive language workaround.

here is source, ADT project.

I know this doesn't match the template. I wanted to get source and binary UP though. I'll prettify this later.

known glitches:

Voice responses don't work (Search doesn't talk back to you, and the nonfunctional Easter eggs are talkbacks.)

'navigate to <location>' opens a web search for the text. Pressing enter in the search box corrects it to offer the Navigation app correctly targeted. ???

//edit: sideloading the apk from androidpolice instead of using the one from pa_gapps fixes this specific issue.

tested to function on:

XDA:DevDB Information

Voice Search Wrapper for Google Now voice commands on armv6, App for the LG Optimus One P500

Contributors

bigsupersquid, google, stackoverflow.com

Version Information

Status: Testing

Current Beta Version: 1.0

Beta Release Date: 2014-04-07

Created 2014-04-07

Last Updated 2014-05-28