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[Enhancement]: Allow browsing books by author / series (and a full list) on Android Auto

Open kuldan5853 opened this issue 9 months ago • 8 comments

Describe the Feature/Enhancement

right now, only a very small (random?) selection of your books is listed in Android Auto.

I would like to be able to have the same options to browse for a book available on Android Auto that I have on the Phone app (Browse by Series, sort by latest date, and so on), with a way to basically navigate my library by selecting an author, a series, and then the specific book I'm interested in.

Also - it would be useful if there would be a "List" view in Android Auto instead of Cover only.

Why would this be helpful?

Right now, to switch between books that have not yet been started / are listed on the results in the app, I would have to pull out my phone to interact with ABS, which is a serious safety issue.

Future Implementation (Screenshot)

Make Android Auto work similarly to the stock app interface

A good way to see how I would envision the implementation is the app "listen audiobook player" which has a fully browsable library on Android Auto.

If useful, I can take a few photos when I'm in my car the next time as I would like a similar implementation to how they did it.

Audiobookshelf App Version

Android App - 0.9.63

Current Implementation (Screenshot)

No response

kuldan5853 avatar May 15 '24 22:05 kuldan5853