[Feature Request] Cover Flow UI in music player

[olivertzeng]

Summary

Show the next and previous album cover in the player UI and when swiping the album cover it goes to the next/previous song with an animation(whether if it’s stack or whatever)
Retro Music Player has this feature and it would be neat if it’s in here as well

Description

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Flow?wprov=sfti1

Use Case

When playing music

Additional context

[eddyizm]

Hi @olivertzeng
Its not clear where you would want to see this exactly, maybe a little more detail in what you would expect to be change and how it impacts the current situation, especially use cases since "When playing music" is a little vague and not descriptive enough.

[olivertzeng]

Hi @olivertzeng Its not clear where you would want to see this exactly, maybe a little more detail in what you would expect to be change and how it impacts the current situation, especially use cases since "When playing music" is a little vague and not descriptive enough.

ill give you a screenshot of how it looks like hold on

[olivertzeng]

Hi @olivertzeng
Its not clear where you would want to see this exactly, maybe a little more detail in what you would expect to be change and how it impacts the current situation, especially use cases since "When playing music" is a little vague and not descriptive enough.

[olivertzeng]

You can swipe left and right to switch to the next or previous song

[eddyizm]

There is another request to add swiping functionality to the player however right now the swiping left and right is used for the lyrics view.

I think if this were to be added, it would need a configuration and turn off the lyric functionality or deal with that some how as I don't see how you can have both.

[olivertzeng]

There is another request to add swiping functionality to the player however right now the swiping left and right is used for the lyrics view.

I think if this were to be added, it would need a configuration and turn off the lyric functionality or deal with that some how as I don't see how you can have both.

I second that

I don't really use the lyrics functions though

[eddyizm]

I don't use lyrics at all but I know it is a very popular feature. I may this issue or the other one to keep them together. I think this ticket is better because it a more specific request. I can see this being useful and intuitive.

[tvillega]

I think if this were to be added, it would need a configuration and turn off the lyric functionality or deal with that some how as I don't see how you can have both.

I saw this solution in a fork (the ticket at the bottom):

Mockup

Pressing the button toggles between the lyrics and the album cover.

It is possible to implement the new swiping gesture without breaking the old lyrics view. A new ViewPager2 implements the feat and the old ViewerPage2 keeps working as always. We toggle them with that new button at the bottom of the mockup.

And yeah, the buttons don't want to get evenly positioned.

[olivertzeng]

@tvillega wait it's not just the gesture but also the ability to show the previous and next song's album art in the player

Also it looks like a good implementation! You can also see how BoomingMusic/Retro Music Player implemented this feature

[Kurami32]

Hi! I'd also like to see this feat. But I think a button for change between the two modes (swipe lyric and swipe song) will be a bit confusing... And also will take one swipe more to see the lyrics.

Instead a button like we can see in the screenshot of @olivertzeng to show the lyrics directly :)

(and btw I'd also see the previous and next song :p)

[olivertzeng]

Hi! I'd also like to see this feat. But I think a button for change between the two modes (swipe lyric and swipe song) will be a bit confusing... And also will take one swipe more to see the lyrics.

Instead a button like we can see in the screenshot of @olivertzeng to show the lyrics directly :)

(and btw I'd also see the previous and next song :p)

Oh yeah! That too

And also there's already a floating button that you can see the lyrics

Or on screen lyrics where it just covers over the playUI

Also the floating button looks out of place in my opinion but it's probably out of scope

[tvillega]

@olivertzeng, @Kurami32
Oh, I understand. It's a little hard to explain with words so I'll just directly show how it looks in the editor:

The selected thing (player_media_cover_view_pager) has two pages:

• Page 0 is the album cover.
• Page 1 is the lyrics screen.

The current behavior is starting on Page 0 and swiping to the left changes to Page 1. The feature I saw used the ticket button (there it was a quaver icon) to go directly into Page 1 because they disabled the swipe gesture.

What I propose to implement this feat is to hide (not remove) player_media_cover_viewer_pager and on the same place put player_media_cover_carousel. The later includes the peek-left and peek-right behavior when swiped.

If the user clicks the ticket button, player_media_cover_carousel is hidden and player_media_cover_viewer_pager is shown directly into Page 1. Pressing the button again makes the reverse swap back into the carousel.

I don't know how to query for data in Android to make this feat possible, but in terms of the UI what you request is possible and non-disruptive.