Add even more checks and guards to the music loading process to ensure
proper metadata loading.
Auxio has always had issues handling track numbers and years, mostly
with ensuring their validity. This change resolves them by more or less
surrounding them with gobs of null-checks and fallible parsing
routines, which should help avoid frustrating bugs and crashes with
metadata in the future.
Resolves#88.
Resolves#84.
Revert the removal of the song/artist values from list items for now.
The current plan of removing extraneous values from songs and albums
only works if I add multi-select and a dedicated menu button, but that
is still in the air, and in general I want feedback before I go ahead.
Aside from reverting the previous changes, this actually standardizes
all item descriptions under a single bullet point formatting system,
instead of the mix of commas and bullet points that existed beforehand.
Remove the album name from the main song item in favor of a duration
value.
Auxio has traditionally used "Artist . Album" for song items. However,
this had some shortcomings:
1. The way the artist and album names are packed probably results in
truncation on small screens, which I doubt is very helpful.
2. All other items in Auxio have only one specific "subject" per line,
which makes the song items a bit of an outlier since it has two (the
artist and the album)
3. The empty space available could be used for another UI element,
such as a duration or maybe a menu button in the future.
For consistency, this also removes the song count from all album items
as well.
Change createMosaic to use SquareFrameTransform.
This should help fix a theoretical bug where non-1:1 album covers will
be oddly stretched in a generated mosaic, as all album covers will be
forcefully cropped to a 1:1 ratio.
Rework logging to be clearer and more standardized.
Rework all usages of lossing to follow a single unified style,
introducing a new "warn" option alongside this.
Add a circular indicator to playback icons.
Sometimes it can be too difficult to tell apart the active and inactive
states of the shuffle/loop icons. However, there is really no good way
to improve the contrast on these icons without some kind of muddled UX
fragmentation, or god-awful design. Try to settle on the okay-est
version, which is to use colorPrimary with a dot indicator on views we
control, and use a more muddled semi-transparent icon on views we don't
control, like notifications and widgets.
Fix an issue where headset focus would restart playback unexpectedly.
At some point during the broadcast refactor, I accidentally switched
the values of CONNECTED and DISCONNECTED when handling
AudioManager.ACTION_HEADSET_PLUG. This resulted in playback starting
for no reason in some situations.
Use body typography in more places, reworking the letter spacing as to
make it more pleasent to use with the inter typeface.
This should hopefully be the last time I fret over typography.
Everything should line up in the way desired by M3.
Do a couple things to the music models:
1. Make the genre field non-nullable. This is because I beleive I've
largely eliminated the genre bugs in previous versions and future ones
can be caught with a crash screen I plan to add.
2. Make the initial album grouping process use hashCode instead of a
pair of names. This just helps with loading speed in general, albeit I
am slightly worried that it may result in improper grouping if some
edge case appears.
Completely rework the Context extensions for resources.
Previously, Auxio has used a strange hodge-podge of context extensions
and verbose code to get resources. Fix this by unifying most of the
resource accesses under a single, unified set of extensions. The only
ones excluded for now is the getString call, as that is used in far too
many places to effectively replace.
Completely refactor the way music is grouped up into artists and
albums.
The issue with previous attempts at implementing better artist
management was the reliance on MediaStore IDs in many parts of the
program. Dumpster this by merging the hash and ID values into a
single field that is garunteed to be unique enough. This allows songs
to be adequately grouped into case-insensitive artists while also
deduplicating albums that may have been split my MediaStore due to
heterogeneous formats.
Resolves#66.
Move all duplicate checking to the album creation stage, adding a new
check for duplicate albums.
Album names can be similarly duplicated as artist names, most often
when one has an album consisting of multiple differing file formats.
This commit fixes that by grouping albums up by their ID as usual,
but then merging together albums that have the same (lowercase) album
name and (lowercase) artist name.
Re-add the inter typeface.
It's not good design to have two similar typefaces, so I may as well
revert back to Inter once and for all. It's too good of a typeface
compared to the mess of Roboto and other native fonts.
Group up album artists case-insensitively.
Music files from the same artist may format the artist differently, such as being
in uppercase/lowercase forms. If we have already built an artist that has a
functionally identical name to another artist, then simply merge the artists
instead of keeping them separate.
Modify the music loader to use the normal artist name when using song
titles while still retaining album artist functionality.
Oftentimes music files will be tagged as to use the artist tag to
specify performers, collaborators, and others, and then use the album
artist tag to group them up into a single artist. Previously, Auxio
would only use the album artist tag, which flattened the collaborator
information out for consistency. Resolve this by implementing a sort
of "resolved artist name" for songs that is used in the UI and nowhere
else. This seems to work well, but at the same time further ruins the
API surface for handling music objects. An acceptable price to pay
for a better UX.
Migrate to the native roboto typeface on body elements.
Migrating to the native typeface saves on APK size, contributes to a
more native look and feel, and create a more compact UI for smaller
devices. Inter Semibold remains as the "Flair" type that distinguishes
Auxio from other apps.
Actually migrate to API 32 [Android 12L], co-inciding with the upgrade
of my studio install and the android gradle plugin. Alongside this, add
a bunch of fixes for lints that the new studio picked up.
I want to hold off with this migration actually. I feel like it's too
jarring of a change to be included as of right now.
This reverts commit 50170f202e.
Dumpster Inter in favor of Roboto. This is mostly for three reasons:
1. Reduces the insane typography setup that Auxio uses
2. Reduces total app size since .ttf files are pretty large and the
dynamic fonts feature was proprietary.
3. Creates a more cohesive look and feel given that nearly every
android app also uses Roboto.
Completely refactor PlaybackBarLayout into PlaybackLayout, which now
not only handles the bar behavior but also allows for one to slide
up the bar layout into the full playback layout. This was largely
adapted from umano's AndroidSlidingUpPanel, albeit heavily minified
and mixed with the previous window inset tricks of the previous layout.
There are still some tweaks to be made, but this implementation seems
to be really good.
Refactor sorting again to support free-floating ascending/descending
values on every single sort mode. This enables greater freedom in how
users can sort their music and allows me to finally get rid of the
old legacy sematic sorting modes that chose their ascending/decending
order depending on how they wanted it.
Improve playback persistence in the following ways:
1. Shift the boundary of PlaybackStateManager and PlaybackStateDatabase
so that the reading and searching phases both occur at the same time,
which is more efficient.
2. Improve music hashing so that conflicts are minimized [this also
helps the future playlists addition]
3. Generally improve code style
Refactor the way music models are constructed to achieve the following:
- Add a unified interface for resolving display names of artists
- Disambiguate the role of Header in the music objects
- Eliminate the need to load strings in with a context when creating
Header instances
Move the main loading response code to MainFragment and add a new
method for other objects to be notified of the progress of the
music loading process. There's probably a better way to do this,
but kotlin coroutines are so complex that I don't know where I
would start. This also adds some enhancements, such as the error
message now showing in more parts of the app and SearchFragment
now re-running the query if the MusicStore instance is loaded.
Make MusicLoader instantiation fully asynchronous. This implementation
changes a lot about Auxio. For one, the loading screen is now gone.
However, many parts of the app now run under the fact that MusicStore
might not be available. However, I don't think there will be too much bugs
from it. Some more changes will be made to improve this implementation.
Finally add tab customization. This implementation is a
bit ugly, but I had to futureproof it for playlists and I'm
planning to clean up a lot of the duplicate code across the app.
This addition notably allows a default tab to be set, which is
something that was widely requested in #12. This UI rework finally
allows it to be added.
Return to the "four seperate list fragments" system when it comes to
HomeFragment. This reduces code complexity [no more massive when
chains] and allows me to customize the content of each fragment without
adding special cases.
Re-add the play/shuffle options to the song list, now as a header. This
seems to be the best option UX-wise, but the implementation is really
I think the best option regarding that is to extend this idiom to all
lists or split these fragments up. Both are reasonable.
Refactor music loading to be based off of songs entirely. This reduces
efficency but enables some nices fixes, notably:
1. Album artists now have basic support [You won't be able to see
specific artists, but they won't be fragmented anymore]
2. Samsung devices probably shouldn't get confused about artist names
anymore, like in #40
This should hopefully be the last time I need to refactor this horrible
system. Thank god.
Completely refactor the detail module. This is for a few reasons:
- Prevent data regeneration every time a fragment re-creates.
- Make DetailModel follow the customs of other ViewModels.
- Simplify layouts into a single detail item to reduce code
complexity.
Currently sorting doesn't work, but that is still being worked out
as the legacy SortMode continues to be phased out of Auxio.
Do the final utility refactor, placing custom views into a .ui
submodule and the general utils into a new .util module. This
system seems to stick well.
Remove the janky requestFocus/clearFocus called on SearchFragment
and replace them with InputMethodManager calls. This is generally
more user friendly, especially when returning to search from
navigation.
