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.
Fix problems with weird margins in the small/wide widgets and change
the initial layout from widget_medium to widget_default.
The latter is nice, as it allows for more cohesion between the default
state and the "unhooked" state that's shown when the phone boots.
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.
Improve typography (again) by isolating my weird non-standard text
styles and moving all font usage to the text styles, which allows
me to eliminate a lot of excessive font usages.
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
When parsing quality covers using ExoPlayer, ensure that we have a
front cover image instead of some other type of image. This is slower,
but this setting is already slow, so why not just prioritize
correctness.
Revamp Auxio's icon entirely. Now it's generally more vibrant [won't
blend into the BG] and will actually has some style to it with an
angular song note instead of the default icon one.
Change CompactPlaybackFragment into a View. This completely fixes the
issue I tried to band-aid in ae39054. The code is a bit uglier, but
that's tolerable.
Band-aid an issue where the scroll position of any RecyclerView in a
PlaybackBarLayout would get consfused because while the main view was
present, the fragment was not inflated yet so that it would not show.
This is [kindof] fixed by moving the fragment instantiation to the
view initialization. However, sometimes the fragment might still not
be inflated. The fragment will likely be replaced with a view
eventually.
Re-add 2x2 widgets. They were originally removed due to strange layouts
in landscape mode, but that has now been fixed with a new "tiny" layout
meant for that specific edge case. Also rename the widget forms to more
sensible names and make the small (previously minimal) widget be
text-only again.
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.
Remove the ability for the FAB to disappear on scroll, mostly because
the state would not be consistent and it was generally bad UX when
combined with the fast scroller.
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.
Prevent issues with malformed widget forms on certain devices by
increasing the minimum widget height to 152dp, which is the height
that the minimal widget should take up.
Instead of having a play/pause header at the top of the song list, use
a FAB instead. This allows people to shuffle all of their songs even if
the songs tab isn't enabled, and it can be tranformed into a create FAB
when playlists are added.
Merge the fast scroller back into Auxio once again, albeit this time
it's AFS instead of IndicatorFastScroll. This not only slims down the
implementation but also allows me to stop the scroller from appearing
every time the home view is recreated. All modifications were noted
and attribution is included to abide by the Apache 2.0 license.
Make AlbumArtFetcher fall back to ExoPlayer's metadata system when
fetching covers. This is because some OEMs seem to cripple
MediaMetadataRetriever, which makes relying on that difficult. This
also modifies MosaicFetcher to rely on AlbumArtFetcher.
Resolves#51
Enhance widgets in a couple of ways:
1. Make the cover art expand to fit it's aspect ratio with padding
instead of the entire widget. This does the cover art justice and
is more visually appealing in general.
2. Add two new widget forms: Terminal, which applies to only the
smallest widgets, and Minimal, which applies to short and wide
widgets
Add edge-to-edge on the Home, Detail, and Search fragments. This
solution is not ideal at all, relying on viewModel state to make
sure that the padding is only applied when the playback bar is not
present. However, it works. I'll likely replace it with a better
layout once I can figure out how similar layouts like Material
Files' PersistentBarLyout work.
Turns out android does not play so nice with themed icons. Pixel
launcher will actually cache them and prevent them from updating
every time a theme is updated, making it impractical. Hoipefully
google will make theming icons easier in the future with some kind
of class that follows the style settings. One can hope.
My phone has just updated to Android 12, and Auxio looks very out of
place compared to the other themed APIs. Improve the usage of Material
You on the app icon and the widgets so that they line up a bit more.
Can't fully commit though since sometimes the colors can't be
replicated or because they don't look very good.
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.
Improve the queue UI some more:
- Fixed an issue where clearing the user queue by clearing all items would
result in it bugging out
- Queue items now show a Material-y background when they are swiped
away. This was way harder than you might think it was.
