2013-01-11, 02:08
I've been following the Android builds for some time now, and with the recent release candidate it's working awesomely on all my hardware. It's great on a tablet.
But no matter whether you're on the toilet, in bed, in a train or any other location that is a typical watch-media-on-tablet location, controlling playback and especially the most frequently used controls (volume, brightness and time-scrubbing) are kind of annoying compared to other Android media players.
A bunch of them, e.g. Dice Player, MX Player, and MoboPlayer iirc, have a clever system where dragging your finger up and down on the left of the screen changes volume, on the right changes tablet brightness, and dragging horizontally scrubs through time (fast forward/backward). This really really improves usability and adding these controls to the playback screen would imo make a valuable addition to the Android version.
But no matter whether you're on the toilet, in bed, in a train or any other location that is a typical watch-media-on-tablet location, controlling playback and especially the most frequently used controls (volume, brightness and time-scrubbing) are kind of annoying compared to other Android media players.
A bunch of them, e.g. Dice Player, MX Player, and MoboPlayer iirc, have a clever system where dragging your finger up and down on the left of the screen changes volume, on the right changes tablet brightness, and dragging horizontally scrubs through time (fast forward/backward). This really really improves usability and adding these controls to the playback screen would imo make a valuable addition to the Android version.