Finally unify all icon activation states under the new grade modifier
in Material Symbols.
This provides similar clarify to the dot/greyed state, but without
inconsistent meanings. The shuffle icon did have to be bolded a little
more though, as the grade did not seem to do much.
Rework the UI flow for music loading to be more coherent with runtime
rescanning.
The loading progress is now shown as a card on the bottom of the
screen. This way, app use is not completely crippled when the app has
to rescan the music library, albeit the shuffle button still has to
be disabled during this period.
Improve the indexer callback system to be more coherent and efficient.
This delegates the old Callback role to a new singular Callback and
Controller roles. IndexerService also handles the loading process
more gracefully, reducing the amount of time music loads take.
Rework the rounded covers option into a new "Round Mode" option.
This commit extends the rounded corners configuration to now the
widget, thus making the setting apply now to covers, the bar, and
the widget configuration. This makes a naming change useful.
Further rework the button layout to be alike to other modern widgets.
This changeset transforms the play button into a FAB-ish thing,
makes spacing coherent between the uses of each layout, and adds
spacers to make the buttons layout in a more appealing way.
Update the library update process to be on a co-routine, updating
callbacks on the main thread.
For some insane reason, the Main dispatcher used normally when
loading music just disappears sometimes. This leads to unpleasent
crashes as callbacks expect to be called on the app thread, not
any background threads.
Fix this by forcing the Main dispatcher during the update process.
This requires the music update process to also run on a background
thread, albeit that will be useful for automatic rescanning late ron.
Completely rework Auxio's iconography based on the new material symbols
icon set.
This does the following:
1. Switches the sharp + filled icon style to an outlined + round icon
style.
2. Removes 32dp icons from everywhere except the playback panel.
This does not:
1. Actually handle optical sizes right. This is going to take some more
work to make it harmonious with the current UI.
2. Update margins in some places to be harmonious with the new icons.
This is also going to take some more work to do properly.
Make BottomSheetLayout apply rounded corners when rounded covers is
enabled.
Draggable elements should be rounded, not straight, so this simply
makes this consistent. It does have one visual error as it stands,
stemming from the layout code allocating space for the bar and thus
clipping certain content. I hope to fix this soon.
Remove the TitleMidLarge style, replacing it with more Material3
attributes.
This finally removes all of the non-standard text styles. There is
still the two TitleMedium styles, but this is considered okay.
In the playback view, TitleMidLarge has become TitleLarge, which
honestly works quite well, as the same text styles are used in the
detail views.
Force LTR on timeline controls, as per the Material Design guidelines.
The guidelines state that while "directional" UIs should be LTR/RTL
depending on locale, "timeline" UIs should always by LTR, as the
direction of time is universal. Auxio did not do this, and so the
timeline controls would be RTL on other elements. Fix this by forcing
LTR on the UI elements that correspond to timelines.
Now, this is not the best system. To ensure that the rest of the layout
remains sane, much of the directional views have to be wrapped in a
redundant layout, which is somewhat in-efficient. However, the impact
seems to be at least negligable.
Completely rework app typography.
Today I found out that inter has a tool that allowed you to generate
line spacings for a particular font size. Several hours later, I
regenerated the entirety of Auxio's typography to use this new system.
Moreso, I also tried to eliminate some of the non-standard text styles
that I was using prior. That failed. Mostly there's two edge-cases
regarding title bolding and the playback view that I simply cannot
work through right now, since M3's typography system is horribly
restrictive.
Add a shortcut to shuffle all songs.
This is likely the only static shortcut Auxio will have. Top tracks
and recently added are completely useless for me, so I will never
add them. I may add more dynamic shortcuts for recently played items,
however.
Note that we use a basic black shuffle icon here. I will not add icon
customization to these shortcuts.
Fix a visual issue with the queue animation where the playback view
will still slightly show.
This was caused by the lack of a background in the queue fragment UI.
Remove the temporary 28dp hack that was applied to the playback bar.
This finally puts the playback bar in line with all other icon
components. The playback panel is still weird, but that's okay since
it's a full screen view and the buttons can take up more space.
Since I absolutely hate change, I had to effectively frog-boil myself
in order to do this, first downsizing the icon from 32dp to 28dp, and
then from 28dp down to 24dp. I can't believe I care about this so much.
Fix an issue where the collapsing toolbar would not preserve it's state
when navigating.
Apparently you need to add an ID to a view to get it's state to be
restored. There is no warning for this at all. Android, everyone.
Completely rework the excluded directory system into a new
"Music Folders" system.
This is implemented alongside a new "Include" mode. This mode
allows the user to restrict music indexing to a parsicular folder.
I've been reluctant to add this feature, as having two separate
options seemed bad. This resolves it by effectively packing whether
to include/exclude directories into a single option.
Resolves#154.
Use basic scroll indicators when a dialog shows a list.
Mostly for material guidelines. Excluded dialogs and int pref dialog
have not been modified, as I am still working on revamping those.
Add support for file size, format, and parent directory values to the
MediaStore backend.
I hope that this handles API boundaries properly, especially regarding
path parsing. As a side-note, I have learned of a way to extend
external volume support to even earlier versions. Maybe.
Add a new view called ImageGroup that will handle all advanced image
hacks from now on.
This includes the indicator (which is now animated), any selection
indicators, and the weirdness of the album song image. All of that
is now handled by ImageGroup. This is the culmination of probably
a day and a half of wrangling with android insanity and having to
remove a lot of what I liked about the indicator in order to make
this work on a basic level.
The only major bug I am currently aware of with this is that the
indicator is bugged out on Lollipop devices due to bad vectors.
Again.
I never want to do this again. I cannot believe that adding a basic
indicator took this long and required so much stupid hacks and
inefficient code. And then google wonders why android apps are so
visually unappealing and janky and laggy. Hm. Must be that devs aren't
using the brand new FooBarBlasterFlow library!
Add a playing indicator to cover art.
This is simply to improve the general aestethics of this view. Of
course, the current way I implement this is incredibly stupid and I
plan to replace it.
Completely rework the way Auxio handles icons.
This is mostly two changes:
1. Removing ImageButton/StyledImageButton for MaterialButton. This is
done by abusing MaterialButton's theming options to make it only show
an icon.
2. Standardizing icon sizes into small, medium, and large categories.
Small is the default, Medium and Large are for edge-cases like the
playback icons which look horrible at 24dp.
3. Abusing the Toolbar to make it follow Material 3 guidelines. This
mostly involved removing the strange icon sizing and correctly padding
the view.
4. Reworking the playback bar to use more, smaller icons, making it
more like a Toolbar in the process (which I like).
Make the home toolbar collapse on scroll.
I was planning to implement this back in 2.0.0, but visual bugs stopped
me. Now, knowing how much space the the Toolbar + Tab combination takes
up on smaller devices, I think it would be better to have this in
general.
Switch from LiveData to StateFlow.
While LiveData is a pretty good data storage/observer mechanism, it has
a few flaws:
- Values are always nullable in LiveData, even if you make them
non-null.
- LiveData can only be mutated on Dispatchers.Main, which frustrates
possible additions like a more fine-grained music status system.
- LiveData's perks are exclusive to ViewModels, which made coupling
with shared objects somewhat cumbersome.
StateFlow solves all of these by being a native coroutine solution with
proper android bindings. Use it instead.
Move the loading screen into the home view.
Previously, we would use a Snackbar to track the music loading state.
This ended up being a pretty stupid and buggy idea, and would get even
worse with the new music loader changes. Instead, we re-implement the
loading screen into the home view to generally be more sane and
extendable compared to previously.
Implement a safe slider wrapper that does not crash with invalid values
as often.
Slider is a terrible component that is not designed with Auxio's
use-case in the slightest. Instead of gracefully degrading with invalid
values, it just crashes the entire app, which is horrible for UX.
Since SeekBar is a useless buggy version-specific sh******ed mess too,
we have no choice but to wrap Slider in a safe view layout that
hopefully hacks with the input enough to not crash the app when doing
simple seeking actions.
I hate android so much.
Resolves#140.
Revert the introduction of the thin/tiny widgets, but keep the new
cover layout I created while working on them.
There is simply no way I can cram controls and metadata within the
size bucket that the thin widget occupies. I have decided to give up
and revert the widget to it's old form.
I understand why the thin widget is not appealing. However, the sizing
at which a widget can properly accomodate a taller widget is just too
precise and not really large enough to justify it's existance.
Rework the smallest widgets to have no textual metadata, alongside
adding a new widget size class.
Turns out the last tiny widget redesign made the controls far too
small. Instead, remove the textual metadata and make these widgets
more akin to the small and wide widgets. This also introduces a new
side class alongside that with more controls, again to make it
similar to the other size classes.
Re-add accent customization on Android 12 and above.
Previously, I disabled accent customization since I thought they were
more or less useless with the new Material You dynamic colors system.
Turns out I severely underestimated how horribly OEMs would botch the
dynamic colors system. Guess I was blinded by my adherence to the pixel
line. Re-add the accent customization for those who do not have a good
dynamic color palette at all.
Resolves#131.
Rework the tiny widget to cram even more information into it.
The tiny widget is nominally meant for edge cases like exceptionally
small screens or landscape mode, but apparently it's triggered on some
devices in normal use because of platform fragmentation and OEM insanity.
Update the tiny widget layout with some new buttons in order to make it
more usable in mnormal use. This is still nowehre near ideal. For
example, when triggering the layout on my device, it ends up squishing
the buttons. But it should probably work better outside of those edge
cases.
Hack around more insane lollipop bugs, such as:
- The angular auxio icon crashing the system UI
- Optimized icons being corrupted
- Setting image alpha not working properly
I really wish I could drop support for this horrible version, but I
either have to wait for a major library to drop support or for the
usage numbers to reach 1%.
