2.2.5
New
- Home, New and Radio each have their own things: Home follows Spotify's own home, New has the new releases and the charts, Radio has the stations and the mixes, and nothing shows up in two tabs.
- Chips on Home: For you, Discover and Artists, sorted from Spotify's own rows.
- Similar playlists at the end of a playlist.
- Artist pages list the playlists the artist is in, "This Is" first, without needing your own developer app.
- The player's glass takes the colour of the song, kept dark so its writing reads on any cover.
- Swipe a recent search to the right to remove it.
Fixed
- Music videos keep their own proportions in the player, on their side and in picture-in-picture. Some were stretched to fill the screen.
- Tapping the folded tab bar only unfolds it, instead of also taking you off the page you were on.
- Radio is back in Android Auto, next to the heart.
- The top of the player shows just the name of the playlist or album it's playing from, so long names fit, and the "..." button is gone.
- The first-run setup was unreadable in the light theme. It now follows the phone's theme, in the app's own style, and the choice of source says what each service needs, including YouTube Music's optional Google sign-in.
After installing
Android takes a while to optimise a freshly installed app, and until it does the interface is noticeably slower. To do it straight away, open the app once and give it a few seconds: that is when it hands Android the list of what to compile. Then, with the phone connected:
adb shell cmd package compile -m speed-profile -f dev.lelonio.square
Run before the app has been opened, the command finds nothing to compile and leaves it as it was.