Hide Progress Bar when Seeking?

[mattm3]

Description

I love that when pausing the progress bar doesn't show like it used to on Plex but when seeking, it shows. Is there any possible way to hide this or add this feature in the future?

I watch combat sports and seeing if I skip through some talking and get to the main event it kind of ruins it when I can see if it has a short or long time left. Other than that everything about Wholphin is perfect for my use case

[mattm3]

Any thoughts on adding this or is it already possible?

[mschumacher69]

This is already possible, the progress bar doesn't show when I seek. I have one click play/pause enabled, I'm not sure if this is what gets it to work like that.

[mattm3]

This is already possible, the progress bar doesn't show when I seek. I have one click play/pause enabled, I'm not sure if this is what gets it to work like that.

I'll have to give this a try later as I'm currently using the modified version I got AI to do which works really well and adds the option to hide the progress bar in the settings.

What does the one click play/pause do? I'm using a Nvidia Shield so to play/pause I just use the dedicated play/pause button. I guess it just makes the main button play/pause and not bring up the progress bar and everything else?

[mattm3]

This is already possible, the progress bar doesn't show when I seek. I have one click play/pause enabled, I'm not sure if this is what gets it to work like that.

Just tried it and unfortunately the progress bar at the bottom still shows when that setting is enabled.

[mschumacher69]

Yeah you're right, it does show, it's just the playback control overlays that don't show while seeking.

[mattm3]

Yeah you're right, it does show, it's just the playback control overlays that don't show while seeking.

Yeah it's like that without the option enabled, it's the small progress bar that would be nice to have the option to hide

[mattm3]

I got AI to see if it was possible and it was able to add the feature in. It would be great if it could be added. This is what AI said it did.

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Hi, I made a small local change to Wholphin to add an optional setting to hide the seek progress bar shown while seeking with the D-pad.

The feature works perfectly in my local build, so I thought I’d share the implementation in case you would consider adding it to the main build.

Feature added

Added a new Playback setting:

Settings → Playback → Hide seek progress bar

Default: Off

When disabled, Wholphin behaves exactly as before.

When enabled, the thin bottom progress bar that appears while seeking with the D-pad is hidden. The skip indicator/text still appears, so the user can still see that they skipped forward or back, but the overall runtime/progress position is no longer spoiled.

This is useful for sports, boxing, live events, TV finales, or anything where seeing the remaining runtime can spoil what happens.

Files changed

1. app/src/main/proto/WholphinDataStore.proto

Added a new boolean field to PlaybackPreferences:

bool hide_seek_progress_bar = 26;

This stores whether the user wants the seek progress bar hidden.

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2. app/src/main/java/com/github/damontecres/wholphin/preferences/AppPreference.kt

Added a new switch preference:

val HideSeekProgressBar =
    AppSwitchPreference<AppPreferences>(
        title = R.string.hide_seek_progress_bar,
        defaultValue = false,
        getter = { it.playbackPreferences.hideSeekProgressBar },
        setter = { prefs, value ->
            prefs.updatePlaybackPreferences { hideSeekProgressBar = value }
        },
        summary = R.string.hide_seek_progress_bar_summary,
    )

Then added it to the existing Playback settings group, after:

AppPreference.SkipBackOnResume,

So the Playback settings list now includes:

AppPreference.SkipForward,
AppPreference.SkipBack,
AppPreference.SkipBackOnResume,
AppPreference.HideSeekProgressBar,

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3. app/src/main/java/com/github/damontecres/wholphin/preferences/AppPreferencesSerializer.kt

Added the default value when initialising playback preferences:

hideSeekProgressBar =
    AppPreference.HideSeekProgressBar.defaultValue

The default is false, so the current Wholphin behaviour remains unchanged unless the user enables the new setting.

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4. app/src/main/java/com/github/damontecres/wholphin/ui/playback/PlaybackPage.kt

The existing seek progress bar was hard-coded to always show:

// Show a small progress bar along the bottom of the screen
val showSkipProgress = true // TODO get from preferences
if (showSkipProgress) {

I changed it to use the new preference:

// Show a small progress bar along the bottom of the screen unless disabled in settings
if (!prefs.hideSeekProgressBar) {

So the existing TODO is now wired up to a real user setting.

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5. app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml

Added two strings:

<string name="hide_seek_progress_bar">Hide seek progress bar</string>
<string name="hide_seek_progress_bar_summary">Hide the bottom progress indicator when seeking with the D-pad.</string>

Behaviour after the change

With the setting off:

• Existing behaviour is unchanged.
• The bottom seek progress bar appears while seeking.

With the setting on:

• D-pad seeking still works.
• The skip amount indicator still appears.
• The bottom progress bar is hidden.
• This prevents spoilers from the visible playback position / remaining runtime.

Local build note

I also made a separate local-only change to app/build.gradle.kts so the project could be built from a downloaded ZIP without Git metadata.

That change is not needed for the main repo. It was only to avoid this local build error:

Process 'command 'git'' finished with non-zero exit value 128

For the actual upstream feature, only the preference/proto/player/string changes above are needed.

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Thanks 😊

[mattm3]

@damontecres is it possible to implement this into the main build of Wolphin?

[damontecres]

Adding this as an option in #1742

[mattm3]

Amazing! Thank you so much 😊