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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Fix an issue where in certain cases a playing item would not be
highlighted if it was being re-played. This was solved my simply
adding a check for if the new item was equal and ignoring it if
it is.
Improve the search UI by making it edge-to-edge and adding the
liftOnScroll idiom. It does come with the caveat of walking on
eggshells to get the liftOnScroll code working, but its okay. It
may be improved in the future.
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.
Add a nice elevation effect to queue dragging operations. This has no
purpose outside of looking nicer. Luckily it doesn't effect queue
behavior at all.
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.
Use viewLifecycleOwner for all fragments that rely on databinding. This
should solve some possible memory leaks, as viewLifecycleOwner is tied
to the lifecycle of the fragment views instead of the fragments them
selves.
Remove the fixAnimInfoLeak hack since it seems that issue was fixed in the new android plugin, and once again modify with the styles to get the dialogs to use the correct style again.
Another day another magic flag I need to fiddle with to get this busted android app working. This platform sucks so much.
Upgrade the detail sorting system to:
- Persist beyond the app lifecycle [as other sort modes do]
- Be used when creating a queue for a genre/artist/album
Finally move the app from AppCompat the Material Bridge theme. This does a couple things:
- Removes need for runtime styling of material widgets used before
- Allows for a better dialog style [But only after a ton of tinkering and weird hacks]
- Makes theming slightly easier [After all the dumb migration bugs and technicalities are fixed]
I never want to do something like this again. UI styling on android is a nightmare.
