A gesture to substitute for the upper left / android back button, on library-related screens. For example, opening Album artists > Artist A > Albums, then swiping from left to right, would bring you back to Artist A.
Problem solved:
This is one feature I’m missing from Poweramp, as it allowed me to look blazing fast across the whole library and select what I want to listen to.
Brought benefits:
This would allow for easier and faster navigating across the library. For example being able to have quick looks to what albums each artist has, while being able to quickly return. All that without having to move the finger either to one of the back buttons - which are far away from where most of the action happens.
Other application solutions:
As mentioned, Poweramp has this feature, although it has way too many gestures on top of it too, bloating it up. (For example, getting to now playing screen is swipe from right, which combined with this gesture doesn’t make much sense - no such problem here tho)
Hmm, I wanted to avoid android gestures, as I feel like in general they do more harm than good over most apps, and it’s not as good as if the app itself supported it (eg, needs to be pretty strictly from edge for example). Basically, this is the only place where I would want such a gesture
But I guess it’s true that it doesn’t really make sense to implement a gesture when system-wide gesture exists…
Was this ever implemented? I cannot seem to find anything in the settings that suggests so.
I agree. Coming from Poweramp, I never realized how useful this feature had become. To clarify, while android gestures do allow returning from ‘album’ to ‘artist’, this has to be done from the side of the screen and can sometimes be difficult to get right in quick situations or if the phone is mounted to something (making edges harder to access, eg car phone mounts). Being able to control this on the screen without taping a button feels incredibly smooth and once you get used to it, you won’t want to go without it!
