never-quite mode

[calestyo]

Hey.

It would be nice if one has a mode, in which the app never quits when using the back button.

Actually, instead, (and when there is nothing to go back anymore), the back button should cycle between the playback view (i.e. the one where one sees just the currently played title and the controls) and the main view (which, in that sense should be: a configurable view, like the albums, genres, etc. lists).

Thanks,
Chris.

[GoneMAD]

settings -> general -> double back to exit. is the best you are going to get

You have to understand im a hobby developer that does not make a living on android development (or really much at all on this app). I have like multiple years worth of feature requests to deal with / planned.. so unless you are asking for something that majority of the userbase is going to want.. its not likely to get done

[calestyo]

Yeah, well ... I've had seen that, but it's not really the same... ;-)
It still exits eventually which is kinda annoying.

Plus the really nice thing would have been that "cycling" between the last list view (like album view) and the playback view. That would be similar to what e.g. the iPod did,... it also had a back button, that went back (when e.g. in menus), but once the "end" had been reached, it just went back and forth between the to view.


And yes that's quite clear. Have you ever considered to opensource it? That way others might be able to join development and you could still offer the Google Play version only as a paid one (and I guess most average users would be simply to lazy or not capable of compiling/etc. it on their own).
OsmAnd does that, for example,... and it seems to work out for them.

[GoneMAD]

Nov 22, 2021 21:21:36 GMT -5 calestyo said:

And yes that's quite clear. Have you ever considered to opensource it?

not possible. I no longer own all the IP which makes open sourcing it impossible

[calestyo]

What a pity :-(

Well anyway... do you think it's possible to add such a mode where the back button first goes back through the list as far as possible, but when nothing more would come, it cycles between playback view and the last main view (album, folder, genre, whatever)... to the list of long term ideas in trello? ;-)

[GoneMAD]

trello.com/c/NQE0kzS4

[calestyo]

😘