sotn3m
commented
4 months ago After further investigation, I believe I’ve identified the issue. It seems to be related to the interaction with my launcher, the Niagara Launcher. Please note that I’m not an Android developer, so this is merely my interpretation of the situation.
The Niagara Launcher has a feature that aggregates selected notifications to prevent constant interruptions from unnecessary ones. One of the options available is to consistently aggregate “silent” notifications. When I disable this feature (which I’d prefer not to do), I notice a control widget appearing in the notification area.
Interestingly, the same launcher correctly recognizes “media control” from other applications. This leads me to believe that there might be a different API to manage this control without a standard notification. I suspect that utilizing this alternative API could potentially resolve the issue I’ve been experiencing and enhance the overall user experience (with availability in the launcher, notification area, lock screen, etc.). I would also hope this might prevent Samsung from killing the background process, which it still does.
I hope it helps.
seazon
Describe the bug No media controls visible when playing podcasts.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Expected behavior Media controls are visible and available. Podcasts not paused almost immediately when doing other tasks on the phone (a little bit longer when not using the phone).
Device info
Additional context
287 indicates that media controls are implemented and should be visible.
I have battery settings of FeedMe marked as "unoptimized". I remember reading that without anything in notifications area, Samsung OS more quickly kills applications.