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.
Make resolvedName the standard name to use across all music items.
Previously, the way Auxio differentiated between names in UIs was to
use name for normal items and resolvedName for parents. This was odd
and disjointed, as it muddled the meanings of the two fields and lead
to a lot of bugs. Fix this by making resolvedName *the* standard name
to use across all music items, even in ones that don't have to resolve
their name.
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.
Rework logging to be clearer and more standardized.
Rework all usages of lossing to follow a single unified style,
introducing a new "warn" option alongside this.
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.
Use a proper composition of the "many" and "other" fields in the plural
fields of specific languages.
In the french/czech plural configuration, both "many" and "other" are
used for string fields. The lint does not make this obvious, so in
d7f34e6 I ended up switching the "other" field to "many". This resulted
in some devices on those languages crashing. To fix this, we define
the "many" and "other" fields with the same value to avoid a crash.
Resolves#69.
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.
Actually migrate to API 32 [Android 12L], co-inciding with the upgrade
of my studio install and the android gradle plugin. Alongside this, add
a bunch of fixes for lints that the new studio picked up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
