Android Auto Support

[BradNut]

This music player is my go to for a dedicated player. It would be nice to have Android Auto support at some point. Just wondering if anyone else wants this feature to be implemented at some point. Thank you!

[hades]

It looks like Android Auto support was intentionally disabled here:

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Music-Player/blame/60688c8f378b6fc75875181fb4142f31c1132f77/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L44

Is there any work necessary before this can be re-enabled? If so, I'm willing to volunteer to help with that.

[Aga-C]

Here you can find why it was disabled: SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Music-Player#603 (comment) (and for the record, here's PR that was originally adding Android Auto: SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Music-Player#587).

If that's not enough, maybe @naveensingh could tell you more what needs to be done in the app to revert it in a way that we won't have any problems with Google Play. And most importantly, would we like to implement it now.

[hades]

Is the app even on Play Store? I couldn't find it, and it's not mentioned in the README.

Either way, I can help fixing any problems that prevent Android Auto support, or actually anything preventing from publishing in Google Play for that matter.

[inson1]

@hades not yet, it will be
https://github.com/orgs/FossifyOrg/discussions/57#discussioncomment-8145586

[hades]

@naveensingh it is mentioned in [1] that Google Play requires search capability for Android Auto.

I've tinkered with the code a bit, and this works as a rudimentary search implementation: master...hades:Music-Player:aa-support-wip

Is this in the ballpark of what's needed to be implemented?

[1] SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Music-Player#603 (comment)

[naveensingh]

Is this in the ballpark of what's needed to be implemented?

Yep, that should do it. Some information is here: androidx/media#204

[muesli79]

Android Auto would be great!

[SinnerK0N]

I made a fork with Android Auto support enabled that im gonna keep up-to-date with upstream
https://github.com/SinnerK0N/Music-Player
more details in the readme if anyone is interested

[SinnerK0N]

MusicPlayer_AndroidAuto.mp4

[dl200010]

I definitely would love this! This is basically the only thing keeping from switching over to this app.

[BradNut]

Any chance of getting this into the main Fossify version?

@SinnerK0N would you provide a pull request into this repository?

[dl200010]

@hades already has sent a pull request with this and a search function.

[hades]

To be clear: I didn't send a pull request, I just asked if this was what Google Play wants in order for Android Auto to be enabled. I didn't get any response to this.

[naveensingh]

I didn't get any response to this.

I missed the mentions somehow. I replied to your comment.

[dl200010]

@hades Sorry, man. I thought it was a pull request. I was mistaken.