Add now-playing media widget (registered apps, no special permission)#158
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Adds an opt-in, two-line media widget below the home date/battery row that shows the current track (scrolling title — artist) and rewind 15s / play-pause / forward 30s controls. Tapping the title opens the playing app. Reads and controls playback by connecting to user-registered apps via MediaBrowserCompat, so it needs no notification-access or other special permission — apps that allow outside connections appear in a picker under Settings → Configure widgets and are connected on demand. - media/MediaRepository: discovers MediaBrowserService apps, manages per-app browser/controller connections, exposes now-playing state and transport controls (play/pause, seek ±, open app). - ui/components/MediaWidget: the two-line Compose widget. - Wires media state/controls through Home and Settings ViewModels; adds a show-media preference and a registered-apps set. - Grants the background-activity-start mode when opening via the session's PendingIntent so it works on Android 14+. - Auto-hides a session that stays paused past a 60s grace period, so apps that leave a paused session alive after closing don't keep the widget up. - Unit tests for the seek-offset math. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Unfortunately this doesn't work with spotify at all so I'll be using the notification access way, open to a new PR if you find a way that doesnt require notification access but still supports spotify |
Drive now-playing controls from MediaSessionManager through a notification listener, with skip/like/save actions, buffering support, and settings that gate the feature on notification access in a single toggle.
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Summary
Adds an opt-in media widget to the home screen, shown below the date/battery row whenever audio is playing. It has two lines:
Title — Artist). Tapping it opens the playing app (its now-playing screen when the app offers one).Permission-free by design
Rather than a
NotificationListenerService(which needs the sensitive "Notification access" grant), the widget connects directly to user-registered apps viaMediaBrowserCompat— no special permission is requested at all. Under Settings → Configure widgets, enabling "Show media controls" reveals a Media apps picker listing installed apps that expose aMediaBrowserService; the widget connects to the ones the user registers and shows whichever is playing.Note: an app only connects if it permits outside connections (its
onGetRootaccepts us). Many players (podcast apps, VLC, etc.) do; some mainstream apps whitelist only system callers and won't connect — hence the per-app, opt-in registration model.Changes
media/MediaRepository— discovers media-browser apps, manages per-app browser/controller connections, exposes now-playingStateFlow+ transport controls. Opens the session'sPendingIntentwith the background-activity-start mode so it works on Android 14+.ui/components/MediaWidget— the two-line Compose widget, themed to match the other widgets (uses the accent color).show_home_mediapreference (default off) and aregistered_media_appsset.<queries>entry forMediaBrowserServiceso apps are discoverable on Android 11+; adds theandroidx.mediadependency.Testing
Built a debug APK and verified on a physical device: registered AntennaPod, confirmed the now-playing line, scrolling text, play/pause, ±seek, and tap-to-open (opening the app's now-playing screen). Existing
HomeViewModelTestupdated and passing.🤖 Generated with Claude Code