Disable the ability to customize audio focus on Android 12 and up.
Android 12 automatically regulates audio streams even further than it
did in previous versions, to the point where the audio focus setting
no longer makes sense on that version. I may extend the removal to all
versions in the future.
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.
Remove the elevation component from all toolbars and the bottom bar.
Material3 states that top and bottom app bars should not cast a drop
shadow. Auxio ignored this and used one anyway. This largely stemmed
from incorrect use of the AppBarLayout styles, which were mostly just
incorrect M2 styles with a new background plastered over. Fix this
by creating a new style that inherits the proper M3 styles and then
using that on all AppBarLayout instances in the app.
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.
Fix an issue with M3SwitchPreference where the switch would not update
properly.
When reacing M3SwitchPreference, I wanted to make an optimization
regarding updating the switch to M3, so I decided to make the
preference check if they have already applied the switch, and then
ignore it if that's the case. However, I ended up forgetting that
ViewHolders tend to need to be re-bound, which resulted in this
optimization leading to inconsistent application of the M3 switches.
Fix this by removing that optimization.
Update the contribution information and templates.
The contribution information and templates were growing a bit stale,
given that they haven't gotten a refresh since ~1.3.0. This commit
reworks them to be more thorough and straightfoward.
Add a CHANGELOG document that keeps track of the past and current
release notes.
Making all of our releases rely on GitHub to keep track of them is not
really a good idea, so this document serves as a record of past release
changelogs just as a pre-caution. It also allows a live preview of the
next version whenever something is changed.
Improve the way track numbers are handled in the album detail view.
Previously, Auxio would show track numbers by simplying stringifying
the integer and then showing it in a TextView. This was problematic for
two reasons:
- Numerics from other languages like Arabic would not be respected
- Invalid track numbers [e.g 0] would be shown regardless of the
situation.
This commit fixes that by placing all track numbers through a format
string first, and showing a generic song icon instead of a number
whenever the track number is 0.
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.
Re-add index correction, albeit with a new system that accomodates the
single queue mechanism.
The issue with using the previous queue mechanism for the single queue
was that it risked using the index of an incorrect duplicate song, as
the search would always start at index 0. Fix this by implementing a
sort of "wobbly" search that starts at the current index and moves back
and forth, checking the closest items first and the furthest items
last.
Add an option to force-reload the app.
Currently, Auxio will load music once and then never re-load it. This
is a really decision I made early on and now regret completely. The
only way to remedy this properly is to create an automatic rescanning
system, but that is a major technical undertaking that I want to save
for later.
Resolves#71.
Improve the russian translations for this app.
These translations were proposed by lisiczka43 with the following
rationale:
"[use] less literal translations, [use] shorter wording to fit into UI
elements, [correct] mistranslations, [improve] consistency of
terminolgy, [enforce] strict ё, [add] missing new strings"
Apparently the previous russian translations were quite Amateurish.
This should make them better.
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.
Expose a custom MediaButtonReceiver that handles the media button
intent. This is not because I wanted to implement this. Some apps
like gadgetbridge just blindly query ACTION_MEDIA_BUTTON instead of
relying on the more modern MediaController API, which I expected
most apps would use instead.
Resolves#62.
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.
Wrap the basic fetchArt call in a try statement to prevent exceptions
from being unable to open a file from propagating outwards. This allows
us to safely degrade when creating mosaics.
Implement a facimile of the new Material 3/You switches in the settings
menu. There's no defined spec for this yet, so I just shamelessly ripped
the implementation from Doodle.
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.
When using gesture navigation, swipe up events might conflict with the
slide up behavior of the playback layout. To fix this, inset the
playback bar based on the gesture insets instead of the system bar
insets.
Extend edge-to-edge to versions below Android Oreo. This is done
through tinting the navigation bar colors on those versions,
circumventing the coloring issue.
Fix an issue where with queues of one-song, adding another song with
"Play next" results in it going behind the current song. This stemmed
from a fix for a crash with empty queues, so instead of doing some
insane min/max logic we just check if the queue is empty and just don't
add the item if it is. It will only get overwritten anyway.
Add a "Dynamic" replaygain mode inspired by the FooBar2000 plugin. This
will automatically determine whether the playback is in an album or not
and use the album gain or track gain accordingly.
Use a custom ExoPlayer fork with the FLAC extension enabled. This
greatly improves the listening experience, as it enables metadata
support on OGG files and FLAC files to be played below API 27.
Make it so that the keyboard is only opened on the search view when
it's initially created instead of when it's loaded from the
backstack. This is just nice for overall UX.
Fix an edge case where if the total duration ends up being zero,
the app will end up crashing at the playback screen. Thank SeekBar
for deciding that it's perfectly okay to crash instead of decay
gracefully when valueTo is 0.
Move all replaygain functionality into AudioReactor, alongside moving
all volume management into the class. This allows volume state to stay
sane throughout.
Add ReplayGain support leveraging ExoPlayer. This was a widely
requested feature, but since I thought I needed MediaStore to
expose the fields, I never considered it. Turns out ExoPlayer
automatically exposes metadata for ID3v2 and Xiph tags, so we
can implement it just fine.
Resolves#7.
I just spent 5 days trying to implement gapless playback using
ExoPlayer and Hopium. That's 5 days I'm never getting back. Heres
what I did add in the process though.
Switch auxio to a single-queue system. "Play next" adds songs to the top
of the queue, similar to before, and then "Add to queue" adds songs to
the bottom of the queue. This enables many more enhancements to be made
to the playback experience, at the cost of a feature I preferred.
Resolves#44.
Split screen layouts in android are completely borked. You can
resize Auxio down to the point where the UI is completely
unusable, and there is NO WAY TO SET A MINIMUM HEIGHT. This is
also not to mention that smallestScreenWidthDp is completely
busted too and still uses the size of the whole screen! Just
band-aid the first issue so that when the layout becomes so
small as to result in a messed up UI, just show a splash that
says that the app can't work at the specific window size.
Forgot that coil's RoundedCornerTransformation is dependent on the
resolution of the image, resulting in inconsistent rounded corners.
Fix this by just doing the plain clipToOutline to round album covers.
Re-add the ability for content to fade out as the playback or queue
view slides up. This also migrates the queue slide animation to also
fade out content, which allows for the stylistic cohesion I desire.
Add an option to round album covers for people who might want more
visual cohesion with apps that have completely drunken the "Round
Everything!" kool-aid. Covers will still be hard-edged by default.
Use the image size provided by coil when creating our mosaics. This
allows both better transformations and better-quality mosaics in the
detail view itself.
Turns out playback controls wouldn't actually work because the view
would detach but not the actual fragment, resulting in onCreateView
never being called and the entire system falling apart. This fixes
it by just giving PlaybackLayout the viewmodel instance it needs.
I'll need to release a hotfix for this issue since this is really
easy the trigger and really hard to fix unless you know why it
occurs. Android lifecycles suck so much.
Add a new layout that handles the edge-case where splitscreen is used
on a sufficently small device. Previously it would result in a squashed
landscape layout, but now it will show a layout that should fit fine in
most situations.
Use a layered background in the playback panel, with a colorSurface layer
behind the elevated MaterialShapeDrawable. This is for safety, as there
might be cases where a fully transparent MaterialShapeDrawable results in
unexpected behavior.
Improve the way the compact playback view transforms into the full
playback view by splitting their view animations in two. This makes
the transition more akin to the Android 12 notification menu, which
due to the nature of how I'm fading views really does make it more
user friendly. Also re-add the "Now Playing" title and a new subtitle
displaying the currently playing artist.
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.
Make the default widget size 3x2 again. This is because the UX is
generally nicer if the smaller widget is used as the default and
because the small widget is now no longer text-only and ugly.
Upgrade to coil 2.0.0 and completely refactor the usage of coil to work
with the new library structure. This also fixes the issue where error
icons will just re-appear due to blocking calls. I had to add a fix on
my end and also use the new caching system in coil 2.0.0.
Disable exoplayer loading since apparently the way I use a blocking
call in the coil coroutine causes it to be uncancellable. This ends
up resulting in errors continuing to apply themselves to whatever
view they were requested from, even if it was an error. Because you
know. Android.
Update the image behavior for the following:
1. Use ic_album as the default image for songs and albums this just
looks beter in general.
2. Use a special default drawable for the widget so that it doesn't
look as strange.
3. Generally update the loading process throughout the app
Update the small/wide widgets to show just the cover art and controls.
This is for two reasons:
1. The old layouts wasted space, which didn't make them look very good
2. I want to add a more Material3-eque "Stylistic" widget option for
the people who want them. Doing this allows me to pack that option into
the widget without having to add a new option.
The way Material3 uses an initial light accent seeds is...odd. It more
closely resembles deep purple [darker on light mode, lighter on dark
mode] in behavior. Therefore we simply rename the light accents to
this. This does mess up translations a lot, but I'll fix it when I
update the rest of the translations.
Simplify the accent scheme:
- Light Blue was re-generated to be a weird darker-on-light-mode
lighter-on-dark-mode blue that looked really similar to how blue-grey
turned out. These have been merged into a new color scheme called
deep blue.
- Deep Orange and Red were too similar after being re-generated, so
they have been merged to become a simple red accent.
Recreate all accents AGAIN. This time it's to properly generate secondary
and tertiary colors for these. The results of them vary [some might be
removed since they're too similar to other accents now], but most are
fine and they allow me to properly use these components without inane
bugs.
Use Slider and FloatingActionbutton in the playback view. This is not
because I wanted to, but because there were insane bugs on Lollipop
devices that stemmed from them being unable to load complex selector
resources.
Migrate to 100% Material3 text styling. I had to basically ignore the
intended styling here just to get a sensible design here, which is
"bad" but I do what I want. The only usage of MaterialComponents left
in the project now is the dialog since the new dialog style the worst
thing ever.
Use Material typography everywhere instead of using a mix of AppCompat
and Material styles. This is still based around MaterialComponents
though, as I'm not fully sure how to wield the new Material3 text
styles yet. This also completely phases out inter bold.
Show the name of the currently shown detail item when scrolling. This
is just UI candy that I've always wanted to add but couldn't due to
CollapsingToolbarLayout being a mess. This addition circumvents that
by simply doing some reflection magic and hooking the alpha of the
toolbar title to the current scroll state, solving the issue.
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
