Automattic / Automattic/pocket-casts-android

Feature Request: Fast Seek Scrubber Scrollbar

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Description

### The User Problem:
A user will want to interact and discover the back catalogue of any given podcast. They attempt to do so by navigating the default view:

Podcasts>Select Specific podcast>Podcast detail page.

From here, they are able to search for a specific podcast, or apply various sort orders.

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However, if any given podcast has hundreds of episodes, it's quite cumbersome to scroll to a specific area for selection purposes.

_**How might we allow toolbar interactivity to allow for faster seeking and scrubbing?**_

### The Idea

Instead of the scroll bar being temporal and non-interactable, allow users to use the scroll indicator as a touch target, and allow users to scroll quickly through the list. Apple Music has an example of this, but should not be used as a benchmark since their right aligned scrollbar allows for alphabetical selection, which might not make sense for Pocket Casts' purposes.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start at the Podcasts > Select Specific podcast > Podcast detail page flow and review how its episode list and current scrollbar behave. Define the intended touch interaction and validate it against podcasts with hundreds of episodes; done means users can seek and scrub through the episode list faster without relying on ordinary scrolling.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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