Fix the player UX

[goyalyashpal]

Checklist

• I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.
• I have read the FAQ and my problem isn't listed.
• I'm aware that this is a request for NewPipe itself and that requests for adding a new service need to be made at NewPipeExtractor.
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• This issue contains only one feature request.
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Problem

• The player UX is very inconsistent
• accomplishing same task requires completely different actions
• and same actions does completely different tasks (like: click on an item, or click and hold on an item)

	Open Video Details	Switch playing mode	Other
Search results list	Click an item	Click & hold on an item
Player queue UI	Click & hold on an item	Click on UI's 3 dots	Click an item: plays it from start
Video details (playing in bg mode)	Not ap- plicable	Go to play queue UI via notification, then do as above	Click play button: replaces active player queue & plays from some random position

Non-tabular format:

Search results list UI:

• Click the list item to go to video details
• Click and Hold list item for selecting the modes

Play queue UI:

• Click on the list item to play it from start
• Click and hold on the list item to go to video details
• Click the UI's 3-dot menu to switch to modes

Video details and playing in bg mode:

• Click the player --> will replace the active player queue (ofc when there're multiple queue items) and will start playing from who knows from where
• So, to switch mode, first go to play queue UI via the notification, then click 3-dot menu from there

Proposed Solution

pending - ugh, i don't know how to create mockups :(

Additional information

• Add the Switch to Pop-up/Background player buttons back #4414
• Add a "add to playlist" option in the share menu #7194
• Let an in-app way to access background player controls/PlayQueueActivity #3515
• 🔍 : ux

For now, i am filling this issue only for myself. i will add the details later. please don't do any action (like label, or lock etc) on it yet.

[opusforlife2]

When I have an incomplete issue that I'm waiting for more info on, I keep it locally in a text file. Every time you make an edit to this, you will send out notifications to everyone who's watching this repo.

[goyalyashpal]

_hiding this comment myself as outdated_ i didnt know about that notifs are sent for edits too, i thought they are sent only on new comments. sorry. i too generally note the stuff in local file, but this one is related with some issues already filed... so, thats why i made this mistake of filling it here. opusforlife2 wrote:

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