feat(browse): add a Home tab of container tiles - #46
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Replaces the flat list of root categories with a Home tab: one browse node whose children carry group titles, which the AAOS Media Center renders as a stack of titled rows. Five sections, in order: Continue listening, Made for you, New for you, Jump back in, Mixes. The rule that shapes everything is that a tile must keep playing. A tile that ends after three minutes is a worse deal than the browse tree it replaced, so each one resolves to a long queue: the saved music queue, the in-progress audiobook, an artist instant mix, a recently added album followed by the rest of the newest 50 tracks, a genre shuffle, or a whole-library shuffle. Tiles come back from the browser as a bare media id, so synthetic ones carry a prefix the resolver dispatches on, the way SHUFFLE_GENRE: already did. Notes on the constraints this had to fit: - Tile shape is not ours to choose. The content style API offers list, grid, category list, category grid, a per-item override and group titles, and nothing for artwork shape — the OEM owns it. The shuffle tiles use the category grid style so their tintable icon is drawn with margins. - AAOS never reports its grid column count, so row width comes from the display width alone: four tiles at 1200dp and above, three below. Sections are trimmed to that, and again after fetching, so a server that ignores a limit cannot wrap a section onto a second row. - Home is five live queries against an 8s browse timeout, so they run in parallel and each is dropped if it fails or is slow. A partial Home beats an error screen in a moving car. - Home is built on Dispatchers.IO explicitly. Browse futures resolve on the main dispatcher, and unlike ordinary browsing this path does not go through the repository's IO scope. - Track-level queries are scoped to the music libraries so audiobook chapters, which are also AUDIO items, cannot leak into the music sections. - Existing users keep a stored category set that predates Home, so a one-time migration adds it at the front and drops the last tab if that would exceed the four-tab cap. The fake Jellyfin server gained resume and instant mix routes, and now records routes it does not model. Those answer 501, which the app turns into an empty section rather than an error, so without that a whole section could vanish while every assertion still passed. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KzDujdziwxMegWj53xkqnr
On a head unit the shuffle tiles rendered as bare glyphs floating on the system background while every neighbour in the row was a solid album square. The category grid content style causes that by design: it draws a tinted icon with margins and no tile behind it, which suits a small category icon and not a tile sitting in a grid of artwork. They are ordinary grid items now, with a full-bleed vector that carries its own dark tile, so the host renders them exactly like album art. The fill is a gradient and is lighter than it first looks it should be. The AAOS media host paints its own background at about #181C1F, so the first attempt at #1A1E20 — a colour from the app's own palette — measured two units away from the background and was invisible on the device. Both values were sampled from a screenshot rather than guessed. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KzDujdziwxMegWj53xkqnr
New Home tab that opens on what you were listening to and gets you playing in one tap Full release notes: - New Home tab, shown first when you open DashTune. It gathers everything into one screen instead of making you pick a category and drill down - Continue listening picks up where you left off, with your last music queue and your current audiobook, each showing how far through you are - Made for you offers instant mixes built around artists you like, plus a shuffle of all your favourites - New for you shows recently added albums. Choosing one plays that album and then keeps going through the rest of your newest music, so it doesn't fall silent at the end - Jump back in brings back the albums you played most recently - Mixes shuffles the genres you listen to most, plus a shuffle of your whole library - Every tile plays for a long stretch rather than a single track, so one tap is enough for a whole drive - Home refreshes as you listen, so it looks different on your next trip - Home is added to your tabs automatically when you update, and can be turned off in Settings
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Replaces the flat list of root categories with a Home tab: one browse node whose children carry group titles, which the AAOS Media Center renders as a stack of titled rows.
Design canvas: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/93013a39-fa5b-4f94-a4b4-f0432426026d
Sections
The rule that shapes it
Every tile must keep playing. A tile that ends after three minutes is a worse deal than the browse tree it replaced, so each one resolves to a long queue rather than a single track. Tapping a recently added album plays that album and then continues into the rest of the newest tracks.
Constraints worth knowing
Testing
:automotive:testDebugUnitTest:automotive:connectedDebugAndroidTestThe 14 new end-to-end tests drive a real MediaBrowser, the same interface a head unit uses. They cover the section order, the one-row budget, that every tile expands into a multi-track queue, and that a new album keeps playing past its own last track.
Three real bugs surfaced during testing and are fixed here:
Not verified
Home has not been run against a real Jellyfin server. The instant mix, resume and play-history endpoints are exercised only against the simulated server, so the shape of real responses is unconfirmed.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01KzDujdziwxMegWj53xkqnr