Tactile Clock
Double click the power button of your device to vibrate the current time
| AppID: | de.eric_scheibler.tactileclock |
| Author: | Eric Scheibler |
| License: | GPL-3.0-only |
| Donation: | Webpage |
| InRepoSince: | 2023-03-04 |
| LastRepoUpdate: | 2025-12-29 |
| LastAppUpdate: | 2025-12-29 |
| LastVersion: | 2.5.1 |
| Categories: | Time |
| APK source: | Github |
| Google Play: | Check if it's there |
This Android app vibrates the current time when the display is locked and you double-click the power button of your device.
How it works
Double-click the power button. This might take some practice to work reliably. Press slowly and deliberately. If you double-click too fast the system only recognizes a single click and turns the screen on instead.
The time vibration is structured as follows:
A short vibration stands for the digit 1 and a long one for the digit 5. The 2 is represented by two consecutive short vibrations, the 6 by a long and a short one and so on. The 0 constitutes an exception with two long vibrations.
Examples:
- 01:18 = . . -...
- 02:51 = .. - .
- 10:11 = . -- . .
- 19:06 = . -.... -.
Explanation:
The time is processed digit by digit:
- . = short vibration
- - = long vibration
Leading zeros in the hour and minute fields are omitted.
Gaps:
To simplify the recognition of the vibration pattern, there exist three kind of gaps with different durations:
- []: A short gap between vibrations in the same digit
- [ ]: A medium gap for the separation of two digits within the hour and minute field
- [ ]: A long gap to split hours and minutes
Additional features
- Keep informed about the current time. The app can vibrate the current time automatically every X minutes or every hour.
- Play the Greenwich Time Signal at the start of each hour, similar to a radio station.
- Decide what to do if you double-click when the display is on. You can choose between a warning vibration and having the time vibrated as well.
- The app is always ready, even after restarting your phone.
WhatsNew:
- Duration of short and long vibrations configurable in settings
- Test of time vibration added to tutorial and settings
- When the screen is turned off and on, either a warning vibration or the current time can be vibrated
- Greenwich Time Signal plays at the top of every hour
- Tutorial text revised
- Spanish translation added
- Leading zeros in hour and minute field omitted
- Small bug fixes (close-notification and audio focus)
While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).
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Version 2.5.1 (2025-12-29) 
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Version 2.4.0 (2025-08-01)
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provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
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support newer Android features on older Android versions.
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perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
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an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: any component may listen events from any other.
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animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
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replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
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library to help with material design guidelines.
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a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
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provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
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helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
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standalone efficient collections.
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library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
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AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
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a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
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core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
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AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
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perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
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library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
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display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
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replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
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library to help with material design guidelines.
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