Automattic / Automattic/pocket-casts-android

Custom Playback Action removal

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[Type] Feature
Dominant language
Kotlin
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Description

### What problem does this address?

At the moment, a lot of users are mistakenly clicking on the playback bar/scrubber when trying to rewind or fast-forward. This seems to have started becoming a problem since the new Android 13 UI (esp on Pixel).

### What is your proposed solution?

Adding extra spacing would probably help, but the issue affects other music apps too, so is probably not possible.

In our case, maybe adding an option to hide the scrubber or hide all of the actions (as was requested in https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/590#issuecomment-1352910794) might help

### Did you search for existing feature suggestions?

- [X] I have searched for existing feature suggestions.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the playback bar and scrubber behavior described here, then read the related request in issue #590. The issue does not identify files, tests, or a settled implementation; done would require an agreed option and verified behavior for hiding the scrubber or playback actions.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android, 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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