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moneytoo / Player

▶ Simple and lightweight, yet polished and powerful Android video player based on ExoPlayer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brouken.player
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Feature: Make the back button hide the UI when paused #471

Closed TheDcoder closed 1 year ago

TheDcoder commented 1 year ago

By back button I mean the button my TV remote, the UI obstructs a significant portion of the image when paused.

Better yet, maybe don't show the UI at all until the user navigates down to it.

moneytoo commented 1 year ago

This is intentional #195

TheDcoder commented 1 year ago

Why though? There doesn't seem to be any rationale behind it.

moneytoo commented 1 year ago

It's simply about the fact that I'm customizing the player only around my needs and wishes. The usage on TV might be slightly different but at least on phones, I ended up strongly disliking the tap to toggle UI controller feature. I realized I don't need that extra tap and do not watch any content that would require that. There are hundreds other players out there so I went all in on being different.

TheDcoder commented 1 year ago

I understand your stance, and it is perfectly valid because it's your project after all.

However I would like to request addition of the functionality dismiss it by using the back button, that way both you and us the users would be satisfied :smile:

When watching a video or a movie, some scenes show text only for a brief moment, and sometimes we want to read it by pausing. Currently this is impossible... but we can easily make this possible by making the UI dismissable with the back button, and I'm assuming it would be a very easy task to implement!

I assure you that many users will be delighted to have this feature, thank you in advance! :pray:

There are hundreds other players out there so I went all in on being different.

Indeed, but in my experience none of them even come close to the perfection and simplicity in this player! Especially for a TV, this is one of the few players which can properly send Dolby Atmos audio without transcoding it.