Antennapod: In landscape mode, the album art overwhelms the playback screen

[tonytamsf]

App version: 1.8.1 (built from develop)

Android version: 10.0

Device model: Pixel 3axl

Expected behaviour:
I should be able see the entire art, the title and the episode title

Current behaviour:
I just see a portion of the art.

First occurred: Version 1.x / about x days/weeks ago

Steps to reproduce:

1. Rotate the screen into landscape mode

[tonytamsf]

@ByteHamster go ahead and assign if you think this is a bug

[ByteHamster]

The SquareImageView has XML parameters that you can play around with (minimum, width, height)

[tonytamsf]

Would you accept a layout-land file, or did you want me to use one layout file for both landscape and portrait?

[ByteHamster]

If I think about it, the layout file already worked in landscape mode. This is a regression since migrating the media player to the bottom pannel fragment. I think it somehow does not register the configuration change and does not re-layout.

[tonytamsf]

@ByteHamster if I fix landscape mode and keep the current layout (Linear) the image is really small.

Question for you: Would you take a pull request where I layout the image to the left and the 2 text fields to the right?

[ByteHamster]

Question for you: Would you take a pull request where I layout the image to the left and the 2 text fields to the right?

This would look really asymmetrical. I don't think I would like the look of that. Do you use other podcast apps? How do they do it?

Is using phones in landscape mode actually a thing that people do? I mean, it should obviously not fill the whole screen like it does in the current version but I am pretty happy with the small image on landscape.

[keunes]

Dunno about horizontal use being a thing or not, but I don't think it'd look so bad (when text is left-aligned):

That said, you don't gain _so_ much visual, either.

[ByteHamster]

Thanks @keunes. Looks better than I thought.

@tonytamsf If you want to add another layout, I am fine with it :)

[tonytamsf]

Great, I use landscape when I'm my car, I prop it up. Also, I use it when I prop it up on my desk, with AntennaPod open so I can skip Ads in the middle.

[tonytamsf]

Thanks @keunes , your help in convincing @ByteHamster is super useful. Haa

[tonytamsf]

Submitted a fix in https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/pull/4137

[tonytamsf]

👋 @ByteHamster I hope this finally fixes this personally nagging issue for me https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/pull/4292

[antennapod-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on AntennaPod Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.antennapod.org/t/certificate-errors-when-using-application/64/20

[antennapod-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on AntennaPod Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.antennapod.org/t/certificate-errors-when-using-application/64/21