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.
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.
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.
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.
Update the app icon to reflect the new accents. Also move around some
things to make it easier to add dynamic colors later on. Don't make it
follow dynamic colors right now however, as I want to make sure it
lines up with the dynamic pixel icons before I make that change.
Mostly migrate to Material 3/Material You.
- Auxio should now follow dynamic colors on Android 12
- Accents have been regenerated to align with the new color roles
- Some colors have been tweaked here and there to line up with the
new design system
- Dialogs were not fully migrated, but that's because Material3 dialogs
look god-awful.
- Accent class was reworked to take up less memory
Now that this is out of the way, I can focus on other UI things before
the release of 2.0.0.
Make a dedicated seekbar view so that does the layout magic necessary
to have an adequate touch target while not taking up too much space.
Isolating this makes handling the playback layout's view much easier.
Do a couple of UI changes I thought of over this week:
- Make the detail header text neutral, mostly so I can make it so that
the accent only corresponds to active thingsd
- Remove the vanity elevation from the cover images. This is mostly to
abide by Material Design.
- Move the about screen to it's own menu slot on the main fragment.
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.
Remove the ducking fadeout code from AudioReactor. This is mostly
because:
1. Android 12 now does this automatically
2. It caused a ton of annoying bugs
Give up and add more material elements such as neutral toolbar colors
and rounded corners. This is largely for stylistic cohesion. I will
keep rounded corners to a minimum though, rounding album covers is a
crime against humanitity.
Refactor the styling again to make all styles start with the Auxio
prefix. Also try to phase out the usage of layout_width and
layout_height in most places, since those can cause a lot of
frustration if they aren't used in the layout they are expected in.
Remove the notification colorizing option. It's simply causing too many
bugs for it to be usable, especially on Android 11 with it's insane
behavior regarding album cover loading.
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.
Re-add sorting to HomeFragment, except heavily improved. The major
improvement here is the addition of song sorting, which was a heavily
requested feature judging by #16. The setting does not save yet and
is not present in the detail fragments, but it is still a major
milestone for the new home ui.
Drop the Bridge theme and completely migrate to material. This is for
two reasons:
- To make Material You less painful
- Improve coloring [Dark mode, other colors, etc].
Most of the previous UI elements were kept [no rounded corners], but
did come at the cost of removing the hint tagline from the search bar
since there was simply no good way to integrate it. There are also
some other miscellanious issues [Weird selection menus, dividers are
not migrated still], but those will be fixed in future commits.
Make HomeFragment's AppBarLayout lift when the data scrolls. This
was something I wanted to do initially, but kept running into issues
with. Turns out the addition of my custom AppBarLayout made this pretty
trivial all things considered. The entire app now follows this idiom.
Brighten the dark theme somewhat. This is for two reasons:
- To make colorOnSurface stick out less like a sore thumb
- To be more in line with other material apps
- To make the dark theme differ from the black theme more
Black theme remains unchanged, so if one wants a much darker theme,
then they can use that.
Use colorOnSurface for the first time ever. I decided to pick a color
that was as non-intrusive as possible that was still differentiateable,
and I think it looks like a net improvement. It will probably be
tweaked a bit in the future as I expand it to other elevated views.
Make playback/about UIs follow the new liftOnScroll and edge-to-edge
idioms. This finally allows me to collapse a lot of duplicate code
into MainActivity and in general reduce code mess.
Make a hack layout that fixes the problem of the lift state not
actually following the RecyclerView state. This should remove the
need for all the fragile fixes for this UI idiom.
Once again fix annoying issues that arise from the quirks of phone
landscape mode. A lot of these fixes can be re-rolled back into the
edge-to-edge code eventually, but it requires fitsSystemWindows to
be phased out entirely.
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.
Make settings follow both edge-to-edge and the liftOnScroll idioms.
This has some minor issues with state, but these should be fixed when
I'm able to make a smooth transition for theme changes.
Auxio would usually open links by trying to walk through the app
chooser/default app situation themselves, mostly for compat purposes.
This method was not only broken in Android 11 with the addition of
the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission, but it also seems to be made
obsolete since the android system seems to handle the app choser
pretty well in 11+. As a result, we replace the link opening code on
that version with a plain startActivity call and keep the old compat
code for older versions.
Resolves#47.
Make the queue UI follow the liftOnScroll idiom that is already used
in the detail views. This also tweaks the edge-to-edge behavior so
that this view properly works.
Fix two annoying appbar issues:
- Appbar will collapse if the navigation sequence is too fast
- Tab ripple would paint over the indicator unless the ripple was unbounded [???]
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.
