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.
Move the AndroidUtils file into the root Auxio directory, renaming it
to AuxioUtils as well. This also changes some methods to be extension
methods instead of argument functions.
Actually bother to add license boilerplate. Even though I've written
the entirety of Auxio, the boilerplate will be under "Auxio Project"
instead, as I don't want to share my real name.
Refactor styles again, this time trying to seperate the more
layout-specific attributes so that layouts become more re-usable.
This also updates the naming conventions of styles.
Make fast-scroller truncation more aggressive, mostly because on my new
ROM it seems like display calculations become a little wonky and cause
slight indicator cutoff. May as well add padding then so that
indicators [and the thumb by extension] actually fit and won't get
clipped.
Yet another dependency upgrade churn:
Android Plugin -> 4.2.2
Material -> 1.4.0
Androidx Core -> 1.6.0
Apparently material deprecated a bunch of BottomNavigationView's stuff
for no good reason. Okay.
Update the README to update the current state of Auxio, uodate the
ADDITIONS document to reflect which features have been rejected,
and remove the black mode question from the FAQ.
Remove the default [a.k.a SortMode.NONE] option from the library view.
It was effectively useless in every single library mode and was
functionally equivelent to SortMode.ALPHA_DOWN. Other SortModes might
come to take it's place, but likely only for albums.
