Announce: Material Skin

[slartibartfast]

OP wants a permanent "Play" button like the ones that pop up on a desktop browser.

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OK, if it gets added I hope it is optional.

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[nickey]

OP wants a permanent "Play" button like the ones that pop up on a desktop browser.

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You (and Redrum) are correct in your interpretations, thanks.

I would vote to have both the single-action play...*and* the 3 dots menu, just like on the browser-hosted version of the Material skin...but maybe that's tricky to achieve with the Android app?

[Redrum]

OP wants a permanent "Play" button like the ones that pop up on a desktop browser.

right, my understanding as well. You get them with a mouse hover. Don't know how to hover on a touchscreen . Its an interesting thought though. But as I said, I am so used to two tap play, I am not looking to add to Craig's workload

Jim

[slartibartfast]

right, my understanding as well. You get them with a mouse hover. Don't know how to hover on a touchscreen . Its an interesting thought though. But as I said, I am so used to two tap play, I am not looking to add to Craig's workload

Jim

I have all my players set to "always ask" before playing anything to give me the choice of playing a single track or the whole album so two taps is natural for me as well.

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[cpd73]

You (and Redrum) are correct in your interpretations, thanks.

I would vote to have both the single-action play...*and* the 3 dots menu, just like on the browser-hosted version of the Material skin...but maybe that's tricky to achieve with the Android app?

Its not directly related to the Android app, as that is just a simple wrapper around the web-view. IMHO, having play and add buttons on the cover of every album in a grid view would look awful, plus they be too easy to mistakenly touch, etc. This works on desktop browsers as they are only shown on hover, and touch devices do not support hover. So, sorry, but I will not be adding this.

[Ron F.]

Material Android APK - clearing cache message

After updating the Material plugin, (by doing a git pull,) I clear it's cache on my phone, (Android 13.) When I hit the "Tap here to clear cache" option in the APK Settings / Application menu I get a white msg field, but no longer is anything displayed in that area. I suspect the issue is the text saying the cache will be cleared is also white? I tried changing the Interface Theme, but that does not seem to make any difference.

[nickey]

Its not directly related to the Android app, as that is just a simple wrapper around the web-view. IMHO, having play and add buttons on the cover of every album in a grid view would look awful, plus they be too easy to mistakenly touch, etc. This works on desktop browsers as they are only shown on hover, and touch devices do not support hover. So, sorry, but I will not be adding this.

Hi. Thanks for your reply...I understand you wouldn't want to overlay it on album covers, but for the record I may have been slightly misunderstood because I was talking about the favourites *list*.

Here's what it looks like
from the android phone:


and from the windows PC:


As you can see, I use the favourites list mostly to store links to radio streams (or the occasional youtube url..thanks Philippe! ). From the PC I can just click play on any item in the list and I'm away...I think of it a bit like the hardware preset buttons on the squeezebox radio and I thought it might be cool to be able to do it from the phone too. Not a huge deal to have to tap twice though.(in case it matters, I'm not particularly attached to the hover for the play button on the PC, ...a permanent play button placed anywhere for each item in the list would be ok too)

Cheers, Nico.

[cpd73]

Hi. Thanks for your reply...I understand you wouldn't want to overlay it on album covers, but for the record I may have been slightly misunderstood because I was talking about the favourites *list*.

Same issue, lots of buttons on each line = lots of visual noise. Works on desktop due to hover.

[nickey]

Same issue, lots of buttons on each line = lots of visual noise. Works on desktop due to hover.

Okie dokie.

At the risk of outstaying my welcome : how about swipe right on a favourite list item to play it? (and a corresponding favourites option in the interface settings to enable or disable that?)

[cpd73]

After updating the Material plugin, (by doing a git pull,) I clear it's cache on my phone, (Android 13.) When I hit the "Tap here to clear cache" option in the APK Settings / Application menu I get a white msg field, but no longer is anything displayed in that area. I suspect the issue is the text saying the cache will be cleared is also white? I tried changing the Interface Theme, but that does not seem to make any difference.

Theme colour on APK is not affected by Material's theme selection - but I guess it should be. I'll try an investigate the notification colour, it should be light text on a dark background.

[Franck@]

Hello Craig,

I have two quick questions regarding Material Skin translations.

1. What is the purpose of the string "?" added recently in /MaterialSkin/HTML/material/html/lang/*.json files?
2. Is it possible to find a solution to manage multiple translations of the help page (/MaterialSkin/HTML/EN/html/material-skin/index.html)?

Thanks in advance.

[Franck@]

Theme colour on APK is not affected by Material's theme selection - but I guess it should be. I'll try an investigate the notification colour, it should be light text on a dark background.

With the APK, I believe there is a similar issue with the dropdowns on the "settings/server" pages. (They always appear on a white background and, on some smartphones, nothing can be read/choose because the text is also in white.)

[cpd73]

1. What is the purpose of the string "?" added recently in /MaterialSkin/HTML/material/html/lang/*.json files?

No idea. Will try to track that down, as that's not correct.

[Edit] Fixed now.

2. Is it possible to find a solution to manage multiple translations of the help page (/MaterialSkin/HTML/EN/html/material-skin/index.html)?

Whole file needs to be copied, translated, and installed to (e.g.) MaterialSkin/HTML/DE/html/material-skin/index.html

[Franck@]

Whole file needs to be copied, translated, and installed to (e.g.) MaterialSkin/HTML/DE/html/material-skin/index.html

Thanks. I will do that for the French translation.

[Franck@]

Whole file needs to be copied, translated, and installed to (e.g.) MaterialSkin/HTML/DE/html/material-skin/index.html

Is it really enough?
When I do that, the "Help" menu keeps pointing to the English version. (But maybe I'm wrong.)

pi@lms:/media/MUSIQUE/lms/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MaterialSkin/HTML $ ls -R FR
FR:
html

FR/html:
material-skin

FR/html/material-skin:
index.html