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Pressing the thumbnail of the widget opens the app on that episode's page, instead of the main app page. #2091

Closed BramKaandorp closed 6 months ago

BramKaandorp commented 6 months ago

Description

The Widget isn't working properly. When I press the thumbnail image, it opens the current episode's description page, instead of opening the app like it would through the icon in the launcher.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

Go to the home screen with the widget. Press the thumbnail in the widget.

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Device, Operating system, and Pocket Casts app version

Fairphone 4 (Android 13) Lenovo Tab P11 2n gen (Android 13)

CookieyedCodes commented 6 months ago

To be honest I don't mind that, now potentially if you hit the pocketcasts logo or the background I wouldn't mind it going to the podcasts screen tho :)

MiSikora commented 6 months ago

This is expected and not a bug. I'll close this issue and forward your feedback about widgets' behavior.

BramKaandorp commented 6 months ago

That surprises me, as there is no other media playing app that does this. The most any other app does is open the player window, not the page that gives information on the thing you're playing.

Imagine if YouTube Music always opened the album page when you tapped the thumbnail in the widget, instead of the main app page. It's information that's not needed at that moment.

CookieyedCodes commented 6 months ago

@BramKaandorp to me it makes sence because it gives to the quick options for play/pause/play now, archive, mark as played, starred, share, download/delete, add to upnext & shownotes all from the one menu and theirs a setting for if you hit play on any podcast it will load now playing (archive also dismisses the dialogue), so it's not that now playing is that far away in my opinion 😅, now playing probably should be sent for the currently playing episode tho & a stared icon should probably be added to - the medium & big widgits in my opinion 😅

BramKaandorp commented 6 months ago

On second thought, I gave a bad example, because in a music app that is exactly what I would want to happen.

The problem I have with this happening in a podcast app is that I don't always open the app just to interact with the currently playing episode. Most of the time I just want to see how many episodes I have left, or things that the new big widget can't show (which is fine).

I don't want to have to dismiss the episode page every time I open the app, and I dislike the redundancy of having the app icon as well as the widget on my launcher's home page, so that, at least for me, is also not an option.

CookieyedCodes commented 6 months ago

Well I would use the upnext shortcut for that tbh but I wouldn't be against tapping the background in the medium & big widgits would open the app 🤔🤔