Automattic / Automattic/pocket-casts-android
Feature Request: Fast Seek Scrubber Scrollbar
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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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.
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
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