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@gabrielluizone gabrielluizone released this 04 Jul 23:55
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Svartifoss 2.0

The app is renamed Svartifoss (formerly Music Center for Wear / Lyra Player). This is the largest release since 1.10: a full Wear OS modernization (system MediaSession integration, Jetpack Compose UI, Tiles and a watch-face complication), several new assignable actions, and a redesigned phone app.

Install the phone APK on your phone and the wear APK on your watch (see the README for sideloading instructions — Wear Installer makes the watch side easier).

Rebrand

  • App renamed to Svartifoss; package IDs renamed com.matejdro.wearmusiccenter → com.svartifoss.snfell (mobile + wear) and com.matejdro.common → com.svartifoss.snfell.common.
  • Wear minSdk raised 25 → 26 (required by the Tiles APIs below); target SDK bumped 30 → 34.

System integration (wear)

  • New watch-side MediaSession proxy: mirrors the phone's now-playing state (title/artist/art/position/playback + remote volume) and forwards transport controls back to the phone. Playback now appears in and is controllable from the system Media Controls app and other Wear OS media surfaces.
  • The Wear OS recents/app-switcher card now shows the currently playing track name instead of just the app name.
  • Media Tile: glanceable ProtoLayout tile with track/artist and prev/play-pause/next controls.
  • Queue-preview Tile: shows the next queued track, tap to skip.
  • Watch-face complication: current album art / title-artist, tap to open the app.

New actions (assignable to any button/gesture)

  • Play/Pause toggle, Stop, Restart track, Mute toggle, Repeat-one (direct on/off), Like/Favorite, Shuffle, Repeat.
  • Search: opens voice/keyboard input on the watch and resolves the query against the playing app's media library, with a replay/delete-able search history.
  • Playlist shortcuts: name + deep-link shortcuts managed on the phone (optional shuffle flag), reachable as a watch list or bound to a button.
  • Play liked songs / Play liked songs, shuffled (YouTube Music).

Wear UI overhaul

  • Full-screen Jetpack Compose queue and menu screens, replacing the legacy WearableDrawerLayout drawer.
  • Configurable mini-buttons row and a quick-actions panel, both assignable through the button/action pipeline, with per-item styling (curve, background, color).
  • Swipe gestures generalized: up/down/left can each be assigned any action.
  • Long-press the center screen to open the queue directly.
  • New screen theme options (default/minimal/compact/cinema), album-art style (cover/blur/black-and-white/blur+bw/hidden) with blur radius and dim strength, ambient opacity, rotary dead-zone and volume/seek overlay timeout.
  • Configurable title text behavior: Automatic (shrink, then wrap, then scroll), always Scroll, always Wrap to two lines, or Shrink-to-fit only.
  • Independent artist text and progress bar accent colors: each can be neutral (static theme color), album-derived (optionally desaturated), or a fixed custom color.
  • Rotary-crown seek: turning the crown scrubs the timeline instead of changing volume (optional).
  • Portuguese (Brazil) localization.

Mobile UI

  • New "Lyra" settings/color-picker/player redesign with a single source of truth for the live accent color.
  • New Guide tab with a Wear OS usage walkthrough; new left navigation drawer with app/author info.
  • Built-in icon picker for custom action icons.
  • Fresh installs now seed the button configs, action list and watch-behavior settings from a bundled default configuration instead of a generic auto-detected guess.

Bug fixes

  • Shuffle button no longer shows as active for apps that never set their shuffle mode.
  • Repeat button now correctly detects "repeat one" on apps (e.g. Retro Music) that report it as REPEAT_MODE_GROUP.
  • Album art now loads on apps (e.g. Retro Music) that provide it as a content:// URI instead of a raw bitmap.
  • Like/favorite button now reliably reflects state on the watch after toggling.
  • Legacy drawer queue could still appear on some apps instead of the new queue screen — fixed.
  • Watch round-screen clipping in light mode (now-playing clock circle cut off at the bezel) — fixed.
  • Queue screen no longer stutters while scrolling (removed a per-row offscreen render pass; animations pause during active scrolling).
  • Watch-face complication cover no longer flashes back to a placeholder icon when a refresh lands before the album art finishes transferring.
  • Equalizer icon now uses consistent bar geometry across the notification, ambient indicator and queue screen.
  • Saved button configs could silently fail to load in release builds — a proguard rule protecting reflection-based action deserialization still referenced the pre-rename package, so R8 stripped it. Fixed.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

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