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feat(widgets): redesign home screen widgets in Material 3 Expressive shapes - #1248
Redraws all six home screen widgets as Material 3 Expressive shapes: pills, circles, a scalloped play button and tonal colour blocks on a transparent root.
The players show progress as a ring around the artwork and the time left, and the seek buttons show the listener's own seek lengths.
Your Shows becomes a grid of artwork that can draw whole covers or mixed shapes.
Widgets scale themselves to the space the launcher gives them, and the launcher picks what to show for the size it really has.
The widgets were rounded-rectangle cards that no longer matched the app's look.
They were sized from the size the launcher reports. Launchers report sizes late or loosely, so a resized widget could be clipped or show text cut through a line.
The playback position on a widget only moved while the app was on screen.
Widgets using the app theme with the display mode set to System stayed light or dark when the phone switched while the app was closed.
The library widgets' counts stopped at the 50 rows they load.
What changed
Widgets (:feature:widgets)
New layouts for Now Playing · Full Controls, Compact, Round and Round with Next, and for Library · Your Shows and New Episodes. Every colour is a tint, so widgets follow the app theme or the system's colours without baked bitmaps.
Playback layouts size every part as a proportion of the widget: rows share the height by weight, squares take their width from their height, icons are fractions of their button, and text shrinks to fit. A frame keeps each widget's proportions and centres it in a taller cell.
WidgetPresentation holds the size steps at which a widget changes what it shows (title lines, time left, show name, the taller Full Controls shape). Each update carries one layout per step and the launcher draws the largest that fits.
The compact player shows the episode title and the time left; its artwork names the show.
WidgetBitmapCache keeps cut artwork, rings, masks and seek icons in memory. A tap redraws the widget at once from the expected result, with no ripple layer and no partial update.
WidgetProgressPoller asks the player for its position every 20 seconds while an episode plays and a playback widget is placed; WidgetUpdatePolicy repaints only when the ring or the time-left label changes.
WidgetChrome sends a light and dark colour pair when the app's display mode follows the system.
Library covers load in small batches and each batch is shown as it lands. The list service fetches a missing cover itself, and a tile shows a placeholder until then.
WidgetLibraryCounts carries the whole library's counts to the header badges.
Core and app
WidgetShowsArtwork preference (widget_shows_artwork) in :core:prefs, whole covers by default; widgets redraw when it changes.
PlaybackRepository.refreshProgressOnce() reads the controller's position once, for callers that need it while the app is not on screen.
BoxLoreChromeColors gains the tertiary roles the New Episodes widget uses.
:app's widget adapters supply the position refresh and the library counts.
Behavior & compatibility
Receiver class names, provider info files, snapshot stores and their keys are unchanged, so placed widgets keep working and redraw in the new look after the update.
The widget picker names change to "Now Playing · Full Controls", "Now Playing · Compact", "Now Playing · Round", "Now Playing · Round with Next", "Library · Your Shows" and "Library · New Episodes". The picker's static previews keep the previous design until feat(settings): add a Widgets page with live previews and add to home screen #1249.
The round widgets stay a circle as wide as the cell's shorter side; the wide pill variant is gone.
The library widgets' header arrow replaces the "View all" footer and opens the same Library tab.
No server, API or notification payload changes.
Listener impact
Widgets have a new look with rounder shapes, and each one fits its space at any size instead of being clipped.
The players show how far along an episode is and how much time is left, also while boxlore is closed.
Your Shows is a grid of covers.
Widgets that follow the phone's light and dark mode switch with it while boxlore is closed, and the library widgets count the whole library.
Release copy
Added
WidgetShowsArtwork preference (widget_shows_artwork): whole covers or mixed shapes for the Your Shows widget.
PlaybackRepository.refreshProgressOnce() and WidgetProgressPoller: playback widgets track the position while the app is not on screen.
Changed
All six home screen widgets are redrawn as Material 3 Expressive shapes with a progress ring, time left and the listener's seek lengths.
Playback widget layouts scale themselves, and each update carries one layout per WidgetPresentation size step for the launcher to pick from; WidgetGeometry and WidgetTextBitmapRenderer are removed.
Widget picker labels are grouped as "Now Playing · …" and "Library · …"; the round widgets no longer have a wide pill variant.
WidgetBitmapCache keeps widget pictures in memory, and library covers load in batches and on demand in LibraryWidgetRemoteViewsService.
Fixed
Widgets using the app theme with a System display mode now switch between light and dark while the app process is gone (WidgetChrome sends a day and night colour pair).
Library widget badges count the whole library through WidgetLibraryCounts instead of the capped rows.
Seek taps on a widget are previewed from the player's live position instead of the last painted one.
./gradlew detekt, ktlintCheck for the widgets and app modules, and lintDebug for the widgets module
Adaptive coverage: playback widgets are laid out at sizes from 120×260 to 620×320 dp, including reported sizes that disagree with the drawn size (NowPlayingWidgetRemoteViewsTest); no part leaves its widget and no text line is cut. The size steps are checked for every size from 100×40 to 700×420 dp (WidgetPresentationTest), and the launcher's own choice among the sized layouts is checked against WidgetPresentation.stepFor.
Renders of every widget, state, size and theme from WidgetRenderGalleryTest (BOXLORE_WIDGET_RENDERS=1) were reviewed.
Device
Resize each widget on a phone launcher and rotate with widgets placed
Tablet and foldable launchers, including folding with widgets placed
Home-screen widgets feature rounder designs and layouts that adapt to available space.
Now Playing widgets show playback progress, time remaining, and configured skip controls.
Your Shows displays cover art in a grid, with an option for expressive artwork shapes; New Episodes has an artwork-focused layout.
Library widgets show full subscription and new-episode counts, including items beyond the displayed rows.
Bug Fixes
Widgets that follow the app theme now update with the phone’s light or dark mode, even when the app is closed.
Playback progress and widget artwork refresh more reliably during background playback.
The pull request updates home-screen playback and library widgets. It adds responsive playback layouts and position refresh, uncapped library counts and batched artwork loading, configurable cover shapes, and theme-aware widget colors.
Changes: Home-screen widgets
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Widget preferences and theme colors core/prefs/..., core/designsystem/..., feature/widgets/.../WidgetChrome.kt, app/.../HomeScreenWidgetsInstaller.kt
Adds a persisted artwork-style preference with cache hydration and refresh triggers. Adds tertiary color roles and supports widget colors that follow system day/night mode.
Library widget data and rendering app/.../WidgetLibrarySourceAdapter.kt, feature/widgets/.../LibraryWidgetDependencies.kt, feature/widgets/.../LibraryWidgetCoordinator.kt, feature/widgets/.../LibraryWidgetRemoteViewsService.kt, feature/widgets/.../LibraryWidgetRenderer.kt, feature/widgets/src/main/res/layout/library_widget_*, feature/widgets/src/test/.../LibraryWidgetRemoteViewsTest.kt
Carries total subscription and new-episode counts separately from capped rows. Renders subscriptions as artwork tiles and episodes as rows. Loads missing artwork incrementally and shows count badges and deep links.
Playback progress and widget sizing core/playback/.../PlaybackRepository.kt, app/.../NowPlayingWidgetPlaybackAdapter.kt, feature/widgets/.../NowPlayingWidgetCoordinator.kt, feature/widgets/.../logic/*, feature/widgets/src/test/.../logic/*
Adds one-time player-position refresh and polling while playback is active and a widget is placed. Defines progress, remaining-time, size, and presentation calculations. Playback actions use matching live position data when available.
Playback widget rendering and validation feature/widgets/.../NowPlayingWidgetRenderer.kt, feature/widgets/.../Widget*.kt, feature/widgets/src/main/res/layout/now_playing_widget_*, feature/widgets/src/test/.../NowPlayingWidgetRemoteViewsTest.kt, feature/widgets/src/test/.../WidgetRenderGalleryTest.kt
Builds size-dependent playback views with updated artwork, progress, controls, and empty states. Adds bitmap and shape helpers, rendering and layout tests, and widget documentation and release-note updates.
sequenceDiagram
participant NowPlayingWidgetCoordinator
participant WidgetProgressPoller
participant WidgetPlaybackSource
participant NowPlayingWidgetPlaybackAdapter
participant PlaybackRepository
NowPlayingWidgetCoordinator->>WidgetProgressPoller: Start polling during active playback
WidgetProgressPoller->>WidgetPlaybackSource: Request refresh when a widget is placed
WidgetPlaybackSource->>NowPlayingWidgetPlaybackAdapter: Call refreshPosition()
NowPlayingWidgetPlaybackAdapter->>PlaybackRepository: Run refreshProgressOnce()
PlaybackRepository->>PlaybackRepository: Merge progress for the current episode
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Possibly related PRs
boxcreate/boxlore#1216: Changes widget renderer update handling for bitmap-cap failures, sharing the renderer update contract used in this pull request.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0de36
The widget redesign shows no actionable merge-blocking risk after review. Resizing, rotation, and foldable behavior have not yet been tried on real launchers, so check them on a device before release.
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Shorten the title to about 72 characters or fewer while preserving the imperative wording and main scope, for example: "feat(widgets): redesign home screen widgets".
Jvm Tests For Changed Logic
The prior failure remains unresolved. The PR adds PlaybackRepository.refreshProgressOnce(), but no JVM test calls it with or without a controller. The new policy tests cover episode matching, not co…
Add hermetic JVM tests for refreshProgressOnce() with and without a controller. Add a test that makes the post-action refresh fail and verifies rollback to authoritative playback state.
Docstring Coverage
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The description clearly explains the widget redesign, playback progress, adaptive sizing, artwork preferences, library counts, compatibility, and test coverage.
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Unresolved Review Threads
All nine posted review threads are resolved. The current review produced zero actionable findings. Two threads have unconfirmed code status; seven have unknown code status. Prior failure addressed: Th…
Architecture Compliance
The PR introduces no listed architecture violation. New feature imports stay within feature:widgets or use core modules. The PR does not change Gradle dependencies or create another playback graph. …
Module Readme Kept True
The PR updates the READMEs for the changed playback, preferences, design-system and widget contracts. The app changes do not alter a contract documented in app/README.md. The README edits add no pro…
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All nine posted review threads are resolved. The current review produced zero actionable findings. Two threads have unconfirmed code status; seven have unknown code status. Prior failure addressed: The supplied review metadata now marks all nine posted threads resolved, including the six previously reported as unresolved.
Full details: Architecture Compliance
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The PR introduces no listed architecture violation. New feature imports stay within feature:widgets or use core modules. The PR does not change Gradle dependencies or create another playback graph. The new widget preference uses a new key, and the snapshot count field has a default for older stored snapshots.
Full details: Module Readme Kept True
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The PR updates the READMEs for the changed playback, preferences, design-system and widget contracts. The app changes do not alter a contract documented in app/README.md. The README edits add no prohibited history, labels, dates, or server and security details.
Full details: Jvm Tests For Changed Logic
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The prior failure remains unresolved. The PR adds PlaybackRepository.refreshProgressOnce(), but no JVM test calls it with or without a controller. The new policy tests cover episode matching, not controller-backed publication. The PR also adds a post-action refresh, but WidgetActionHandlerTest does not test refresh failure and rollback.
Resolution
Add hermetic JVM tests for refreshProgressOnce() with and without a controller. Add a test that makes the post-action refresh fail and verifies rollback to authoritative playback state.
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Actionable comments posted: 9
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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/widgets/HomeScreenWidgetsInstaller.kt:
- Around line 69-70: The review comment identifies no issue with the shown
widget preference collection or behavior; make no code changes based on it.
Review comments at
@app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/widgets/NowPlayingWidgetPlaybackAdapter.kt:
- Around line 80-84: Update refreshPosition and its interaction with
onMediaItemTransition so controller progress is published only after it is
associated with the current episode, not the previous title during an in-flight
show lookup. Use the existing episode identity or transition state to verify the
progress belongs to the current item; discard or defer a poll when that
association cannot be established.
Review comments at
@app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/widgets/WidgetLibrarySourceAdapter.kt:
- Around line 115-119: Add or extend a JVM test in
WidgetLibrarySourceAdapterTest for the uncapped counts projection: provide more
shows and episodes than LibraryWidgetLogic’s truncation caps, then assert counts
contains the full totals while the row lists remain capped. Also cover
hideCompleted and verify its effect on the newEpisodes count.
Review comments at
@core/designsystem/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/designsystem/theme/BoxLoreChromeColors.kt:
- Around line 18-21: Update the core/designsystem README to document the four
public constructor properties added to BoxLoreChromeColors: tertiary,
onTertiary, tertiaryContainer, and onTertiaryContainer.
Review comments at
@feature/widgets/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/widgets/actions/WidgetActionHandler.kt:
- Around line 45-69: Add Robolectric tests for withLivePosition and perform in
WidgetActionHandler, using a fake WidgetPlaybackSource to verify same-episode
live positions update the snapshot while different episodes preserve it, and
each transport control refreshes position exactly once while OPEN_APP does not.
Review comments at
@feature/widgets/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/widgets/LibraryWidgetCoordinator.kt:
- Around line 136-148: Add a JVM test for loadMissingArtwork using a fake
artwork loader to verify null results are skipped, four successful loads publish
once, and five publish twice; also verify cancellation stops further publishing.
Keep the test focused on the batching behavior and follow the project’s existing
test conventions.
- Around line 130-134: Update the snapshot-writing path around publish so any
prior artwork job is cancelled and fully joined before the newer snapshot is
written. Retain the job reference while waiting, including when collectLatest
cancels its block, so an older job cannot publish stale data afterward.
Review comments at
@feature/widgets/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/widgets/LibraryWidgetRemoteViewsService.kt:
- Around line 183-190: Update artworkPath and the shared artwork-loading
coordination to apply a cooldown when the bounded load times out, keyed by the
complete candidate set including fallbackUrls, so later row bindings do not
repeat the delay. Preserve the existing cached-path checks and keep the
coordinator’s background loader active during the cooldown.
Review comments at
@feature/widgets/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/widgets/NowPlayingWidgetRemoteViewsTest.kt:
- Line 160: Remove or rewrite `responsiveSizesUseLauncherSizeList` in
`NowPlayingWidgetRemoteViewsTest` so it no longer implies that
`OPTION_APPWIDGET_SIZES` affects layout selection; if retained, assert that
changing the supplied `SizeF` list does not change the chosen layout. Leave
size-selection coverage to
`theLauncherIsGivenOneLayoutForEverySizeStepAndPicksTheSameOneWeDo`.
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redesign home widgets with Material 3 shapes".
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threshold.
- Unresolved Review Threads:
Fix and resolve each outstanding finding, or explicitly dismiss it with a short
rationale.
- Module Readme Kept True:
Update `core/designsystem/README.md` to document the `BoxLoreChromeColors`
result and its tertiary roles.
- Jvm Tests For Changed Logic:
Add hermetic JVM tests for live and mismatched episode positions, post-action
refresh and failure handling; artwork batches, remaining rows and failed loads;
repository refresh with and without a controller; and full-library counts before
truncation, including empty and filtered inputs.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
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- Title check:
Shorten the title to about 72 characters or fewer, for example: "feat(widgets):
redesign home widgets with Material 3 shapes".
- Docstring Coverage:
Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage
threshold.
- Unresolved Review Threads:
Fix and resolve each outstanding thread or finding, or explicitly dismiss it
with a short rationale.
- Jvm Tests For Changed Logic:
Add hermetic JVM tests for `refreshProgressOnce()` with and without a
controller. Add a test that makes post-action refresh fail and verifies rollback
to authoritative playback state.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
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Shorten the title to about 72 characters or fewer while preserving the
imperative wording and main scope, for example: "feat(widgets): redesign home
screen widgets".
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage
threshold.
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Add hermetic JVM tests for `refreshProgressOnce()` with and without a
controller. Add a test that makes the post-action refresh fail and verifies
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Summary
Motivation
What changed
Widgets (
:feature:widgets)WidgetPresentationholds the size steps at which a widget changes what it shows (title lines, time left, show name, the taller Full Controls shape). Each update carries one layout per step and the launcher draws the largest that fits.WidgetBitmapCachekeeps cut artwork, rings, masks and seek icons in memory. A tap redraws the widget at once from the expected result, with no ripple layer and no partial update.WidgetProgressPollerasks the player for its position every 20 seconds while an episode plays and a playback widget is placed;WidgetUpdatePolicyrepaints only when the ring or the time-left label changes.WidgetChromesends a light and dark colour pair when the app's display mode follows the system.WidgetLibraryCountscarries the whole library's counts to the header badges.Core and app
WidgetShowsArtworkpreference (widget_shows_artwork) in:core:prefs, whole covers by default; widgets redraw when it changes.PlaybackRepository.refreshProgressOnce()reads the controller's position once, for callers that need it while the app is not on screen.BoxLoreChromeColorsgains the tertiary roles the New Episodes widget uses.:app's widget adapters supply the position refresh and the library counts.Behavior & compatibility
Listener impact
Release copy
Added
WidgetShowsArtworkpreference (widget_shows_artwork): whole covers or mixed shapes for the Your Shows widget.PlaybackRepository.refreshProgressOnce()andWidgetProgressPoller: playback widgets track the position while the app is not on screen.Changed
WidgetPresentationsize step for the launcher to pick from;WidgetGeometryandWidgetTextBitmapRendererare removed.WidgetBitmapCachekeeps widget pictures in memory, and library covers load in batches and on demand inLibraryWidgetRemoteViewsService.Fixed
WidgetChromesends a day and night colour pair).WidgetLibraryCountsinstead of the capped rows.Test plan
JVM
./gradlew :feature:widgets:testDebugUnitTest :core:prefs:testDebugUnitTest :core:playback:testDebugUnitTest :core:designsystem:testDebugUnitTest./gradlew :app:testDebugUnitTest --tests '*Widget*'./gradlew detekt,ktlintCheckfor the widgets and app modules, andlintDebugfor the widgets moduleNowPlayingWidgetRemoteViewsTest); no part leaves its widget and no text line is cut. The size steps are checked for every size from 100×40 to 700×420 dp (WidgetPresentationTest), and the launcher's own choice among the sized layouts is checked againstWidgetPresentation.stepFor.WidgetRenderGalleryTest(BOXLORE_WIDGET_RENDERS=1) were reviewed.Device