A first pass at making the three clients look like a streaming app rather
than a file browser, with no new data behind it.
- Type: a Hero rung (34) set in Inter Display Bold, the optical size Inter
draws for large text, for the banner's name and a title page's name where
no logo stands in. Desktop `Role::Hero` and `theme::display`; Android and
iOS `displayLarge`, at a tighter 1.1 leading. The font has its private use
mappings stripped like the other two cuts.
- Artwork fades in over its skeleton on Android and iOS, as it already did
on desktop cards; art already decoded draws at once. Desktop episode
stills and logos fade in too.
- Skeletons shimmer: a soft diagonal highlight instead of a pulse.
- Desktop tiles lift towards the viewer under the pointer, capped so a
lifted tile never reaches its neighbour, and keyboard focus gets a ring
of its own.
- Desktop shelves share one `ui::shelf`: edges fade into the page and, under
the pointer, round buttons page the row along.
- Genres are chips on Android and iOS; quality (4K, HDR, 10-bit, Dual audio)
moves out of the facts line into small outlined marks on all three.
- Desktop title page and hero buttons use a tonal style beside the accent
one, and the player's top bar a dark glass style, instead of egui's stock
buttons. Episode numbers leave monospace for the type ramp.
- The phone players' top and bottom bars are gradients rather than flat
bands, and a double-tap seek is felt as well as seen.
A title with no fanart, banner or backdrop drew its poster cropped to the
band's shape across the title page and the library's banner: a blown-up
slice of the middle of it, which read as broken. Now the poster is
squeezed to 64x36 and blurred once when it is fetched, the cache keeps
that wash, and it is stretched across the band. The library's banner
stands the sharp poster at its right over it. Android blurs the poster
it already had (Android 12 and later; older versions decode it tiny),
and iOS likewise.
METADATA.md also records the quality badges of the commit before.
ani.zip sent each series' TVDB clear logo and every episode's running
time from the start, and neither was kept. Enrichment now stores the logo
in title_metadata.logo_url (kept across a refresh of the same entry, like
the fanart) and episode runtimes in episode_metadata.runtime, TVDB's
first and AniDB's length after it. AniList's duration lands in
TitleDetails::runtime; TMDB episode runtimes are kept too.
Schema v13 adds the two columns and marks AniList titles un-enriched
without deleting anything. TitleDetails::revision lets details written
before runtime existed refetch by id while the old ones stay on screen,
instead of blanking them in the migration as v10 did.
Clear logos are padded to a square, so each client crops them to their
visible pixels before drawing. The logo replaces the name on the
library's banner and the title page (not on a light theme's title page,
where lettering made for dark art can vanish). Episode rows show how long
they run, in place of the file size on Android and iOS; a film's runtime
joins its line of facts.
The subtitle style was three fixed choices. It is now size, position,
font, bold and italic, free colours with opacity for the text, outline,
box and shadow, outline thickness, shadow distance and blur, and an
opt-in "Restyle styled subtitles" that repaints ASS dialogue too
(sub-ass-override=force). The defaults are mpv's own, so a viewer who
never opens the section sees no change.
Settings has a section of its own with a sample line drawn on a bright
and a dark picture. Every change also reaches the playing file at once,
and is written when the mouse is let go rather than once per frame of a
drag. The player's subtitle menu has size, position and a per-file
delay; Z and X shift subtitles by 0.1 s, as in mpv.
Every option is sent every time, so a change back to a default lands on
a live player. A refused sub-border-style still skips the border options
that depend on it, so an older libmpv loses the box rather than drawing
a smear.
eframe now builds with its accesskit feature, so the widget tree reaches
the platform screen reader. Buttons drawn as an icon glyph were read as
the icon font's private code point, and the hand-painted ones (play,
poster tiles, the watched mark, download rings, the seek bar) as
nothing. A Named trait gives them a name, and hint() makes the existing
hover text that name.
- Turning metadata off or switching provider forgets every stored answer,
including matches chosen by hand. The desktop now asks first and says
how many hand-picked matches go. The phones' settings dialog says so
above Save.
- Forgetting a hand-picked match on the desktop, and any match on the
phones, is asked about first.
- Downloading a season, a show, or everything from a library tile asks
first, with the episode count and their size.
- Android confirmations that delete something use an error-toned text
button rather than the filled accent, which read as the safe choice.
No client crawled a share unless someone pressed Refresh, so a new
episode stayed out of the library until then, and nothing said how stale
the library was.
Catalog schema v11 adds share_crawls: when each share's last crawl
finished and was attempted, how many files it stored and how many were
new, and why the last attempt failed. A failure keeps the last good
crawl's numbers.
Every client now crawls, quietly, any share not looked at for six hours:
the desktop at launch and every half hour while open, the phones at
launch and on their existing catch-up timer. A quiet crawl says only
news ("anime: 3 new files") and leaves failures on the share's row
rather than in a toast.
Share rows on all three show "120 files - crawled 2 h ago", or the last
failure until a crawl succeeds.
A Proton account is now optional alongside public links. Signing in (password,
then a second-factor code and a mailbox password where the account has them;
a CAPTCHA gate is solved in the Android app) stores one session blob in the OS
credential store under `proton-account`, writing back every refreshed token
since refresh tokens are single-use. With an account, folders of the viewer's
own Drive — My Files, other devices, shared with me — can be added as shares
through the same `ShareClient` surface as a public link.
Watch history syncs through a `proton-stream` device in that Drive: one
`watch-history/<installation>.json` per installation, so no two devices ever
write the same file. Each sync reads the others and merges per episode, newer
`updated_at` wins, with a deterministic tie-break. It runs at launch, after
sign-in, whenever the player closes and every five minutes. A session that can
no longer refresh signs the app out instead of failing on every launch.
The CLI gains `login`, `logout`, `account`, `browse` and `sync`.
Also in this change:
- Android offline downloads no longer look stuck (B64): two transfer at once,
through a copy stream with no read-ahead, with a smoothed transfer rate.
- Choosing a metadata match by hand now enriches the title too, instead of
keeping the old match's episodes and artwork.
The catalog schema is unchanged.
Bring the phase 2 library to Android. Search, sorting and franchise folding
move from the desktop app into pstr_core::browse, so both clients find,
fold and order the same titles the same way.
The bridge gains AndroidEngine::arrangement, which returns the grid's tiles
and up to three shelves as keys into the library's titles. Each TitleRecord
now carries its display name, wide art, format, season, studios, directors,
tags, airing state and franchise. The library bar has a sort menu with the
franchise toggle, folded tiles show a +N badge, and shelves sit above the
grid. The title page shows the same facts, tags and franchise row as the
desktop. Settings -> Appearance gains Title names.
The default title name is now English, which is what Android always showed.
A folded franchise now sorts by its lead's displayed name rather than by its
alphabetically first member.
The AniList query now keeps the start date, season, banner, popularity,
status, next airing episode, tags, main studios, director and story
relations, as TitleDetails in one JSON column (schema v10). Matches
stored without them are fetched again by id, never searched, so
hand-picked matches stay; refreshing the same entry keeps its episodes
and fanart. Enrichment records the entries it walked. node_first_seen
remembers when each file appeared, across recrawls.
pstr_core::franchise groups titles that share a provider id. The grid
folds each franchise into its lead with a +N badge, and the title page
lists the whole franchise in release order. pstr_core::shelves picks
rows by airing status, director, studio and genre. A row needs three
franchises, so one franchise's titles never make a row on their own.
Desktop:
- Covers are the default grid (Settings > Appearance > Library tiles).
- The hero and title band use fanart or banner decoded at 1920 px.
- New sorts: recently added, newest, highest rated, most popular.
- Titles can show the share's, English or romaji name; search matches
all of them.
Android carries TitleDetails through a hand-picked match; its screens
are unchanged.
Every played episode, newest first, under Today, Yesterday, a weekday or a
date. A row shows the still (which plays it), the title (which opens it),
the episode, and where it stopped or that it was finished. Removing a row
resets that file to never played, with an Undo. History sits second in the
top bar, so Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+5 now run Library, History, Shares, Downloads,
Settings.
theme::space, theme::radius and theme::motion name the steps the UI is
drawn with. Literal gaps, corner radii and animation durations across ui/
now come from them, which folds a few near-misses onto the scale (10 and 14
point gaps onto 12, 10 point radii onto 12, 0.10 s hovers onto 0.12 s).
Page fades and toasts share one ease_out curve.
Tiles and episode stills light up under focus as they do under the
pointer and scroll into view when the arrow keys or Tab reach them;
Enter opens or plays. Global keys now check for a focused text field
rather than any focused widget, so / and Esc still work over a tile.
The title watched last, or with nothing part-watched one of the titles a
provider has a backdrop for, turning over once a day. Large art behind
the name, rating, genres, three lines of overview, and Resume / More
info.
- toasts replace the status line; keyboard shortcuts with a ? overlay
- library: filters, sort, row virtualisation, cached search, skeleton
tiles until the catalog loads, gradient placeholder art
- title page: season pills, episode rows with stills and one download
glyph, portrait poster, clamped overview, resume time in the button
- player: fading chrome, smooth scrims, subtitles lifted over the
controls, drag-following seek knob, OSD, speed menu, auto-skip
- settings as grouped cards with toggles and palette previews
- shares: confirm before removing, inline link validation, form kept
until the add succeeds; downloads scroll and show rate and ETA
- downloads pipeline four blocks; the next episode is warmed near the end
- a film behind another page repaints at 4 Hz, not its frame rate
Fixes B55-B60.
Type/shape/motion tokens live in theme.rs and every ui/ module reads them
instead of scattering literal sizes and radii. Appearance and playback
preferences move out of the shares page into their own Settings page and
nav tab.
The title backdrop's veil and fades were painted after the header was laid
out, so they covered the name and overview as well as the still — the text
was being dimmed by the thing meant to make it readable. All band layers
now go into the shape slot reserved before the header, behind the text.
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