Remove databinding entirely.
Databinding was a terrible idea for Auxio. I rarely leveraged it, and
when I did, it produced messy code and bloated build times. Dumpster it
for just viewbinding, which is good. This reduces building times by
nearly 2/3, and generally makes the codebase more coherent and usable.
Move all fragment instances to the new ViewBindingFragment paradigm,
which should help immensely with reducing memory leaks from list
bindings and to really alleviate the overloaded onCreate functions.
Rework the playback views to follow the new idioms I want to use for
Auxio.
This change mostly consists of flattening away some of the custom
views, removing databinding, and using a general viewbinding
fragment that I hope to extend to the entire app.
Rework the playback slide up implementation to be more straightfoward.
This is really composed of stylistic improvements, very little in
actual behavior changes. This does re-introduce a regression when
nothing is playing where the scroll position will become off when
rotating, but that desynchronization happens often so unless I were
to completely migrate both the panel and the bar to a view, I don't
really see it as an issue.
Migrate to a centralized constant table for easier management.
Previously, Auxio would tie constants to the class itself, which
led to a largely disjointed system that relied on an internal table
so that it would stay sane. This commit moves all of those constants
to a single table for easier usage and management.
Completely refactor the Sort class to be more efficient and
straightforward.
The original Sort class had *major* shortcomings, it was slow,
poorly organized, and relied on abusing compareBy to implement
special things like article sort. This rework eliminates all of
that in favor of a new system relying on custom comparators and
chaining to achieve something much faster and maintainable.
Turn the headset focus setting into the headset autoplay setting.
The way auxio handles headsets is...odd. Sometimes the MediaSession
handles it and Auxio could not care less, and sometimes Auxio actually
needs to handle it. As a result, the idea of being able to disable
headset focus is more or less moot because it will only apply to some
devices and not others.
On the other end, the way Auxio automatically begins playback once a
headset is plugged in is also quite weird. It only works on wired
headsets, and when it does, it overrides all other apps that might
also be playing audio. It's not to say that it's a bad feature, but
it's also one that I don't want to make the defualt. Auxio should
still play along within the confines of Android's expectations, after
all.
Replacing the existing "Headset focus" setting with a new "Headset
autoplay" setting solves both of these issues, as it prevents a
mis-guided disabling of the setting that doesn't actually disable
the feature and it relegates the quirky autoplay behavior to an
setting not enabled by default.
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.
Create a custom view for rounded images, making them more nuanced in
the process.
The previous method for applying rounded images in-app was generally
clunky and fragile. Introduce a new custom view that actually takes a
cornerRadius attribute from the ImageView itself that then applies it
whenever the user enables the setting. This also allows rounded images
to be more nuanced, as typical 8dp elevation can be used for small
views and a more fitting 16dp radius can be used for large views.
Rework how the fab's adaptive functionality works.
Handle fab adaptiveness by using a style instead of a fully custom
view. This helps eliminate a usage of private resources.
Crop all images to a 1:1 aspect ratio.
Sometimes cover art will not be a square. I never realized this because
all covers in my music library are square. This led to many strange bugs
that I would rather avoid, so create a new transformation that crops the
image to a 1:1 aspect ratio.
The reason why we use a transformation is that it won't be dependent on
the actual state of the ImageView, which is what would happen if we
used ScaleType.CENTER_CROP. In the case that we use a very weird hacky
ImageView like in the widgets, doing such would result in any cropping
not actually working correctly. It's better to do it in the
Transformation stage simply to ensure consistency.
Allow the material library to handle dynamic colors.
Turns out I was mis-understanding how DynamicColor themes were meant to
be used by the material library. Turns out you can just inherit from it
and it will work perfectly fine. Refactor the V31 styles to remove our
insane shims and finally fix the slapdash dynamic color usage across
the main theme and widgets.
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.
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.
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.
Apply body typography in new places in the app.
For awhile, Body and Title typography were used interchangeably, as
they occupy the same text size range. This commit defines the Body
text as to be used for one-line widgets or tertiary widgets, while
the Title text is defined to be used for multi-line or heading widgets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
