Echo 4.1 Expressive

🚀 Changelog:

📡 Google Cast (Chromecast)
• Full Cast support: stream your music to compatible speakers and TVs!
• Seamless state synchronization between the local player and the Cast device.
• Smart queue management (JIT loading), shuffle support, and integrated Cast volume controls.

🎵 Playback & Audio
• Fixed playback freezing when plugging in wired headphones/jacks or USB Type-C DACs.
• Added Volume Normalization to Audio Effects.
• New "Pause on Mute" feature: music stops automatically if you lower the volume to zero.
• Vastly improved Crossfade, Shuffle logic, and queue drag-and-drop.

🚗 Android Auto
• Completely rebuilt search logic: now 100% compatible with Google Assistant voice commands (returns instantly playable tracks instead of
empty folders).
• Fixed various queue loading bugs on the car dashboard.

🛠 System & UI
• Automatic playback retry and resume as soon as the network connection is restored.
• Added a new setting for Haptic Feedback (vibrations).
• Crash prevention via optimized error handling, network fallbacks, and better RAM management (large heap).
• UI refinements (updated audio quality menu, clearer error snackbars).

Echo 4.0 Expressive

Changelog:

Expressive Design:
• Floating Navbar: Brand-new liquid floating navigation bar with fluid morphing and spring animations. 
• Wavy Playback: Wavy progress bar and circular playback indicators.
• Redesigned Miniplayer & Controls: Compact miniplayer with quick controls and reorganized player buttons with enhanced haptic feedback.
• Refreshed Library & Categories: Redesigned category cards with a new pill-style layout.

Performance & 120Hz Smoothness:
• GPU Hardware Bitmaps: Image loading powered by Coil 3.x with VRAM allocation to eliminate Java Heap memory usage and scrolling micro-stutters.
• Zero Frame Drops: Removed redundant layout recalculations for lag-free dragging and smooth player sliding at 90Hz/120Hz.

New Features:
•Volume Slider: New visual bottom sheet with visual connected device and volume slider.
• Improved Crossfade & Dynamic Colors: Refined crossfade logic and more accurate album art color extraction algorithms.

Echo 4.0 Expressive

Changelog:

Expressive Design:
• Floating Navbar: Brand-new liquid floating navigation bar with fluid morphing and spring animations. 
• Wavy Playback: Wavy progress bar and circular playback indicators.
• Redesigned Miniplayer & Controls: Compact miniplayer with quick controls and reorganized player buttons with enhanced haptic feedback.
• Refreshed Library & Categories: Redesigned category cards with a new pill-style layout.

Performance & 120Hz Smoothness:
• GPU Hardware Bitmaps: Image loading powered by Coil 3.x with VRAM allocation to eliminate Java Heap memory usage and scrolling micro-stutters.
• Zero Frame Drops: Removed redundant layout recalculations for lag-free dragging and smooth player sliding at 90Hz/120Hz.

New Features:
•Volume Slider: New visual bottom sheet with visual connected device and volume slider.
• Improved Crossfade & Dynamic Colors: Refined crossfade logic and more accurate album art color extraction algorithms.

Echo Nightly

v3.0.732_8ae817c(732)

[skip ci] fix issue template injection thanks to #239