mastodon
Add audio controls for background playback
- Come across a post with audio attached.
- Start playback.
- Scroll away, read other posts, switch timelines: Mastodon continues playing the audio, and you cannot stop it without manually going all the way back to the original place where you initially found the audio.
There are a couple different solutions to this:
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Automatically stop the playback when the user leaves the post. Better UX than currently, but still not good. Trivial to implement.
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Similarly to WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc., provide a small one-line audio control popup fixed to the top of the screen. Fantastic UX, but implementation would take time, as it would affect the UI.
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Create a notification that provides audio controls, similarly to music apps. Good UX, implementation shouldn't take too long, as it wouldn't affect the UI.
Why are you asking me to add something that has already existed for as long as the app supported playing audio?
Seems like Android 12 hides it by default if there are other notifications. How about the in-app popup?
It shouldn't. Only if you haven't allowed notifications, or if you've turned off that particular notification channel.
How about the in-app popup?
This is a UI change to the app itself and I'm not the person who makes such decisions.