DR-161 made `experimentalNativeVideo` default to on, but three comments still
described the pre-flip world and one of them was load-bearing:
- `nativeVideo.ts` labelled the store "Default off" directly above a `load()`
that returns true when nothing is stored.
- The two PiP comments explained themselves as "what makes PiP work in the
shipping configuration", which stopped being true when Android started
shrinking the real ExoPlayer surface. They still describe the Linux path and
the flag-off case, so they say that instead.
- `video_audio_codecs` justified its narrow codec list with "video does not play
through ExoPlayer", which is no longer so on Android. The narrow list is still
right, for a different reason now recorded: the flag is a user setting and a
download outlives it, so only the intersection holds on both sides of the
switch. DR-171 carries the same caveat.
No behaviour change.
Batch of reported bugs and enhancements.
UI
- Pages no longer inherit the previous page's scroll position (DR-156, UR-072).
The shell keeps its scrollers alive across navigation by design, so the
element never remounts and its scrollTop survived the route change; SvelteKit
restores window scroll, which this app never uses. ScrollMemory records the
offset per route and per container: forward moves reset to the top, Back
restores where the route was left.
- Season header stacks on narrow screens, and the title span gets min-w-0 so it
actually truncates instead of overflowing under the action buttons.
- Favourites gets a labelled tile at the head of the library grid rather than
only an unlabelled heart icon in the header.
Playback
- Full-screen video on Android hides the system bars (DR-157, UR-066).
requestFullscreen() cannot touch the Activity window from inside a WebView, so
the control did nothing visible while the bars stayed painted over the video.
ImmersiveModeBridge hides them, restored on exit, Escape and teardown.
- Background-audio handoff stops leaking its relative timeline (DR-159).
background_audio_base was a display-only correction applied in two places
while progress reports to Jellyfin, the frontend and media3's own seeks all
worked in the relative timeline treating it as absolute — each crossing losing
exactly `base` seconds. The conversion now happens once, in the position tick,
and inbound seeks resolve through seek_absolute, which re-opens the stream at
the requested position because the handoff transcode cannot seek.
- Picture-in-picture works on the path that actually plays video (DR-160).
canEnterPip demanded a native ExoPlayer surface, but that path is behind a
flag defaulting to off, so PiP could never engage. It now accepts the WebView
<video> too, keeping the WebView visible and routing play/pause to the element.
- Native video is now the default so PiP has a real surface (DR-161). The
scrub-regression tests pinned the flag-off path implicitly; they now mock it
off explicitly. The native scrub/seek path is not covered by the suite and
needs device verification.
Watched state
- Watched toggle on the episode row, season header, series and movie hero, and
the Episode Focus View (DR-158, UR-073). Both backend halves already existed
with no caller. storage_set_watched covers a container's episodes so the
toggle is honest offline, and QueuedOp::MarkUnplayed gives the sync queue the
missing direction.
Release
- Fix the Android versionCode floor (set-version.sh). v0.5.2 shipped code 5002
under an earlier minor*1000 scheme, but the current minor*100 formula yields
1502 for that version and 1503 for 0.5.3 — so every 0.5.x release built from
it was an un-installable downgrade for anyone already on v0.5.2. Widened to
10000 + major*1000000 + minor*1000 + patch (0.5.3 -> 15003).
- Bump to 0.5.3.
Hand video playback off to a native audio-only stream when the app is
backgrounded or locked, with no on-device video decode (UR-040). Adds
player_enter/exit_background_audio commands, an audio-only stream URL
for video items across the repository layer, and the frontend handoff
state machine wired into VideoPlayer. Includes accompanying
repository/offline/player refactoring and regenerates the traceability
matrix.
Add PiP for native (ExoPlayer) video on Android. Video renders into a
SurfaceView behind the WebView, so PiP is driven by the Activity shrinking
into a floating window rather than the HTML5 PiP API (which WebKitGTK does
not implement, hence Android-only).
- PictureInPictureManager.kt: enter PiP with the video's aspect ratio
(clamped to the 1:2.39-2.39:1 range Android accepts, outside which it
throws), plus a play/pause RemoteAction. Hides the WebView while in PiP -
it is opaque and sits above the surface, so it would otherwise occlude the
video entirely - and re-fits the surface on exit.
- MainActivity.kt: onUserLeaveHint auto-PiP, onPictureInPictureModeChanged,
and an AndroidPictureInPicture JS interface following the existing
AndroidAudioFocus pattern.
- pictureInPicture.ts + VideoPlayer.svelte: PiP button, rendered only when
the native bridge reports support.
- proguard: keep rules for @JavascriptInterface methods, which are only
referenced from JS and would be stripped in minified release builds.
Casting needs no special handling: canEnterPip() checks natively that a
local video surface is attached and playing, which a remote session lacks.
While wiring the manifest, found that three tracked files under
src-tauri/android/ were never reaching any build. Gradle reads only
gen/android/app/src/main/, and sync-android-sources.sh did not copy them:
- src/main/AndroidManifest.xml was a partial <application> fragment written
as if Tauri merged it. It does not - there is no manifest-merger hook
here, so its hardwareAccelerated flag never reached an APK. Promoted to
the complete authoritative manifest (folding in that flag) and synced.
- src/main/res/values/themes.xml (transparent status bar, fitsSystemWindows)
was never copied; the sync only globbed mipmap-*. Now synced.
- build.gradle.kts was a leftover com.android.library module config with
stale media3 1.5.1 deps. The live deps are in app/build.gradle.kts at
1.5.0. Deleted.
Verified: merged manifest now carries hardwareAccelerated,
supportsPictureInPicture, resizeableActivity and the density configChange;
themes.xml compiles into merged resources; Kotlin builds warning-free;
svelte-check clean; 537 frontend tests pass.
Not verified: PiP behaviour on a device, and the release keep rules against
a minified build. assembleUniversalDebug cannot complete in this
environment - the Rust step wants a dev-server addr file that only exists
under `tauri android dev`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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