I have LineageOS on my phone and noticed the media player has the wavy progress bar on it. Not only that, a lot of music players also have it and lowkey I personally don’t like them. I find it hard to position where I actually want to be in the song and I just don’t like the constant movement. I rather a normal progress bar but that just a personal choose.
I wish I could turn it off. Just seems unnecessary.
No, they suck, but nobody gives a shit about good UI design any more
It would be a cute detail, if one media player did that, but it being part of the general OS design language got me tired of it pretty quickly…
Could somebody show some context for this?
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-auto-music-player-redesign-rollout-3651717/
Some screenshots in there.
I hate the bars but I am still on stock for now.
I haven’t seen the LineageOS version, but generally I don’t think I really care all that much. It’s fine I suppose?
the incredibly stupid part is that on the developers side it was in alpha/beta for a long time. you literally had to use a beta version of the material library to add a progress bar, because the older one was not included. I’m not even sure it’s ready now
I have found the wavy bar to be both aesthetically displeasing and functionally worse. I have a harder time understanding where I am in a song or podcast and feel like changing that position is harder since the position doesn’t visually track with my finger directly. Very frustrating all around.
As someone else said, it would be a cute thing for a single app, but it should not have been made a part of the android design language.
