# Android Auto Media Specification

## Purpose

PluriWave MUST expose a browsable station tree and play-by-media-id interface to Android Auto (projected) via the existing `PluriWaveAudioHandler` (`audio_service` MediaBrowserService/MediaSession), so a driver can browse and play stations from the car head unit without rebuilding the audio pipeline.

## Requirements

### Requirement: Android Auto Discovery Declaration

The app MUST declare itself as a media app to Android Auto so the car head unit discovers it.

#### Scenario: Android Auto scans installed apps

- GIVEN PluriWave is installed on the phone
- WHEN Android Auto scans installed apps for car-app support
- THEN it finds `res/xml/automotive_app_desc.xml` declaring `<uses name="media"/>`
- AND the `AndroidManifest.xml` `<application>` block declares `<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.car.application" android:resource="@xml/automotive_app_desc"/>`
- AND PluriWave appears in the car's media app list

### Requirement: Favorite Group Sub-Folders

The Android Auto browse tree MUST expose favorite groups (`GrupoFavoritos`, as already modeled by `Emisora.grupoFavoritosId` and surfaced by `EstadoRadio.gruposFavoritos`) as browsable, non-playable sub-folders reachable from the existing `Favoritos` folder, without altering the 3 root folders (`Favoritos`, `Todas las emisoras`, `Mis emisoras`).

#### Scenario: Car requests the Favoritos folder and groups exist

- GIVEN the user has one or more favorite groups with at least one member station each
- WHEN `getChildren` is called with the `Favoritos` folder id
- THEN it returns one non-playable folder `MediaItem` per surfaced group, in addition to (or instead of, per the design's structural decision) any ungrouped favorite stations
- AND each group folder's id follows a browsable `grupo:<id>` scheme distinct from the `emisora:<uuid>` playable-item scheme

#### Scenario: Car requests a group folder's stations

- GIVEN a favorite group folder with id `grupo:<id>` was returned under `Favoritos`
- WHEN `getChildren` is called with that `grupo:<id>` folder id
- THEN it returns the playable `MediaItem`s for exactly the stations whose `Emisora.grupoFavoritosId` matches `<id>`
- AND those items are sorted and capped using the same ordering and item-count rules already applied to the other folders (`ordenarEmisoras`, 50-item cap)
- AND selecting one of those items plays the corresponding station via the existing `emisora:<uuid>` playback path, unchanged

#### Scenario: Car requests an unknown or stale group id

- GIVEN a `grupo:<id>` id that does not match any group known to the current snapshot
- WHEN `getChildren` is called with that id
- THEN it returns an empty list, not an error

### Requirement: Empty Favorite Group Handling

The system MUST produce a browsable tree that never presents a user-selectable folder promising content it cannot deliver: for any favorite group with zero member stations, the tree MUST either omit that group's folder from `Favoritos`'s children, or include it and return an empty (not erroring) child list when browsed. The specific choice between omitting empty-group folders and showing-but-empty, and any related folder-count/flat-vs-nested structural decision for `Favoritos`, is deferred to `sdd-design`; whichever mechanism design selects MUST satisfy both scenarios below.

#### Scenario: Empty group folder is browsed (if shown)

- GIVEN a favorite group has zero member stations and the design's chosen mechanism surfaces it as a folder under `Favoritos`
- WHEN `getChildren` is called with that group's `grupo:<id>`
- THEN it returns an empty list, not an error

#### Scenario: No user-facing dead end

- GIVEN the full set of favorite groups, including any empty ones
- WHEN the `Favoritos` folder is browsed and then each of its returned children is browsed
- THEN no returned folder child ever throws, hangs, or surfaces a driver-facing error state
- AND the car head unit's total folder/item count presented under `Favoritos` remains within the driver-distraction-safe bounds design establishes

### Requirement: Browsable Media Tree

`getChildren` MUST return a browsable tree rooted at `AudioService.browsableRootId`, organized into non-playable folders (Favoritos, Todas las emisoras, Mis emisoras, Ecualizador) containing playable items. Playable station items SHOULD carry an audio-quality subtitle when known. The `Favoritos` folder additionally MAY contain non-playable favorite-group sub-folders (see "Favorite Group Sub-Folders"); `Todas las emisoras` and `Mis emisoras` remain flat. The `Ecualizador` folder is flat, non-playable, and contains only the 6 fixed EQ preset items (see "EQ Preset Browsable Folder").
(Previously: root contained exactly 3 folders — Favoritos, Todas las emisoras, Mis emisoras — with no EQ folder; Favoritos was a flat folder of playable station items only, with no sub-folder nesting.)

#### Scenario: Car requests the root

- GIVEN the car head unit connects and requests the root (`AudioService.browsableRootId`)
- WHEN `getChildren` is called with the root id
- THEN it returns four folder `MediaItem`s (Favoritos, Todas las emisoras, Mis emisoras, Ecualizador), each with `playable: false`

#### Scenario: Car requests a folder with no stations

- GIVEN the user has zero favorite stations
- WHEN `getChildren` is called with the Favoritos folder id
- THEN it returns an empty list, not an error

#### Scenario: Browse requested before app state is loaded

- GIVEN the audio handler starts cold and station/favorites Provider state has not finished loading
- WHEN `getChildren` is called (root or any folder)
- THEN it returns a valid, possibly empty, list without throwing and without blocking or crashing the service

#### Scenario: Station has known codec and bitrate

- GIVEN a station's `Emisora.codec` and `Emisora.bitrate` are both known (non-null)
- WHEN it is mapped to a playable `MediaItem`
- THEN `displaySubtitle` SHALL contain a human-readable quality hint combining bitrate and codec (e.g. "128 kbps · MP3")

#### Scenario: Station has unknown codec or bitrate

- GIVEN a station's `Emisora.codec` or `Emisora.bitrate` (or both) is null/unknown
- WHEN it is mapped to a playable `MediaItem`
- THEN `displaySubtitle` SHALL omit the quality hint gracefully (no subtitle, or a subtitle with no quality fragment)
- AND the subtitle MUST NOT render literal placeholder text such as "null kbps" or "null · null"

#### Scenario: Ungrouped station appears exactly as before (regression guard)

- GIVEN a station's `Emisora.grupoFavoritosId` equals `GrupoFavoritos.sinAsignarId` (`'sin_asignar'`, the default when no group is assigned)
- WHEN the `Favoritos`, `Todas las emisoras`, or `Mis emisoras` folders are browsed
- THEN that station appears as a playable `emisora:<uuid>` item in exactly the same folder(s), position (subject to existing sort rules), title, art, and subtitle as it did before favorite-group folders were introduced
- AND its presence and shape are unaffected by the existence, emptiness, or content of any favorite group

### Requirement: EQ Preset Browsable Folder

The Android Auto browse tree MUST expose the 6 fixed EQ presets (`PresetEcualizador.presets`) as playable items inside the `Ecualizador` root folder, each using a distinct `eq_preset:<nombre>` media-id scheme, separate from `emisora:<uuid>` and `grupo:<id>`.

#### Scenario: Car requests the Ecualizador folder

- GIVEN the `Ecualizador` folder id was returned under the root
- WHEN `getChildren` is called with the `Ecualizador` folder id
- THEN it returns exactly 6 playable `MediaItem`s, one per `PresetEcualizador.presets` entry, titled with the preset's name
- AND each item's id is `eq_preset:<nombre>`, where `<nombre>` is that preset's unique name

### Requirement: EQ Preset Selection Applies Without Disturbing Playback

Selecting an `eq_preset:<nombre>` item MUST apply that preset immediately through the headless-safe EQ seam (e.g. `PluriWaveAudioHandler.aplicarPreset`), via a branch in `playFromMediaId` intercepted BEFORE the `emisora:`/`grupo:` routing. It MUST NOT call `playMediaItem`, MUST NOT mutate the now-playing `mediaItem`, and MUST NOT start, stop, restart, or otherwise alter current playback or playback position.

#### Scenario: User selects a preset while a station is playing

- GIVEN a station is currently playing and projected to the car
- WHEN the user taps an `eq_preset:<nombre>` item, resolved via `playFromMediaId`
- THEN the matching preset is applied via the headless-safe apply seam
- AND the currently playing station continues uninterrupted, with no change to playback position or now-playing metadata

#### Scenario: User selects a preset while nothing is playing

- GIVEN no station is currently playing
- WHEN the user taps an `eq_preset:<nombre>` item
- THEN the matching preset is applied via the headless-safe apply seam
- AND no playback starts as a result of the selection

#### Scenario: Unknown or stale preset id

- GIVEN `playFromMediaId` receives an `eq_preset:<nombre>` id whose `<nombre>` matches no entry in the current `PresetEcualizador.presets`
- WHEN resolution fails to find a matching preset
- THEN the selection is a no-op: no preset is applied, no playback state changes, and no unhandled exception propagates from the handler

### Requirement: EQ Preset Persistence and Phone/Car Parity

An EQ preset applied from the car MUST persist as the principal preset, with the same observable outcome as the phone's existing `ServicioEcualizador.guardarPrincipal`/`cambiarPresetPrincipal` path, and MUST be reflected on the phone. A principal preset changed on the phone MUST be observable from the car. The exact code path used to reach the headless-safe persistence seam from an Android Auto bind is deferred to `sdd-design`.

#### Scenario: Preset applied from the car persists for the phone

- GIVEN the user selects `eq_preset:<nombre>` from the car head unit
- WHEN the selection is processed
- THEN the preset is persisted as the principal preset
- AND opening the phone's EQ UI afterward shows that preset as the active/principal preset

#### Scenario: Preset applied from the phone is reflected for the car

- GIVEN the user changes the principal preset from the phone UI
- WHEN the car head unit subsequently observes EQ-related state through the browse/selection surface
- THEN the car-observable state reflects the phone's most recently applied principal preset

### Requirement: Active Preset Indication (Optional)

The system MAY indicate the active/principal preset within the `Ecualizador` folder's rows. Because the legacy `MediaBrowserService` browsable-item model has no native "selected item" affordance, any indication, if implemented, MUST be conveyed via a row `title` text convention (e.g. a marker prefix/suffix) rather than assuming a checkmark or selection icon exists. If a reliable title-text convention is too costly to maintain, this requirement MAY instead be satisfied by explicitly not implementing active-preset indication.

#### Scenario: Active preset is indicated via title convention (if implemented)

- GIVEN the currently applied principal preset is known when `Ecualizador`'s children are built
- WHEN the design's chosen title-text convention is applied
- THEN exactly one of the 6 preset rows' `title` carries the active-preset marker, uniquely identifying that preset among the 6

#### Scenario: Active preset indication is out of scope (if not implemented)

- GIVEN the design opts not to implement an active-preset marker
- WHEN the `Ecualizador` folder's children are built
- THEN all 6 preset rows are returned with their plain preset names, with no partial or inconsistent marking applied

### Requirement: Playable Item Metadata

Every playable `MediaItem` (station) MUST include a non-empty `title` and a loadable `artUri`. Stations without a logo MUST fall back to on-brand artwork, and stations whose logo URL cannot actually be loaded MUST degrade to the same on-brand fallback instead of rendering broken or blank art. The fallback MUST be visually consistent with the phone UI's per-station rotation rather than a generic launcher-icon copy.
(Previously: fallback only covered a null/empty favicon and pointed at a bundled default-artwork asset that read as a copy of the launcher icon.)

#### Scenario: Station has a valid, reachable remote logo

- GIVEN a station has a remote logo URL that resolves to a loadable image
- WHEN it is mapped to a `MediaItem`
- THEN `title` is the station name and `artUri` is the station's logo URL

#### Scenario: Station has no logo (Case A)

- GIVEN a station has no logo (`favicon` is null or empty)
- WHEN it is mapped to a `MediaItem`
- THEN `artUri` is set to one of the on-brand `station_art_*` fallback assets instead of being empty or null

#### Scenario: Station's logo URL is present but unreachable (Case B)

- GIVEN a station has a non-empty `favicon` URL that cannot be loaded (dead link, unreachable host, or non-image response)
- WHEN it is mapped to (or resolved as) a `MediaItem` in the Android Auto browse tree
- THEN the system SHALL show the same on-brand fallback art used for Case A instead of broken or blank art
- AND the car head unit MUST NOT display an empty, broken-image, or indefinitely-loading art tile for that station

#### Scenario: Fallback art matches phone-UI per-station selection

- GIVEN a station falls back to on-brand art (Case A or Case B)
- WHEN the fallback asset is chosen for that station
- THEN the selected asset MUST be one of the same 4 rotating assets used by the phone UI (`station_art_aurora`, `station_art_cosmic`, `station_art_pulse`, `station_art_nova`)
- AND the same station MUST deterministically resolve to the same asset on both the phone UI and Android Auto (per-station selection parity), not a random or session-varying choice

#### Scenario: Fallback art is on-brand, not the launcher icon

- GIVEN a station requires fallback art (Case A or Case B)
- WHEN its `artUri` is resolved
- THEN it MUST NOT point at a byte-for-byte copy of the app launcher icon
- AND it MUST point at one of the 4 on-brand `station_art_*` assets

### Requirement: Media Item Resolution by ID

`getMediaItem` MUST resolve a single station id to its full `MediaItem`, returning `null` for unknown ids instead of throwing.

#### Scenario: Known station id

- GIVEN a valid station id that exists in current state
- WHEN `getMediaItem(id)` is called
- THEN it returns the corresponding `MediaItem` with `title` and `artUri` populated

#### Scenario: Unknown station id

- GIVEN an id that does not match any known station or folder
- WHEN `getMediaItem(id)` is called
- THEN it returns `null` without throwing

### Requirement: Play by Media ID Reuses Existing Playback Path

`playFromMediaId` MUST resolve the id to an `Emisora` and invoke the existing internal `playMediaItem` path; it MUST NOT duplicate playback or reconnection logic.

#### Scenario: User selects a station in the car

- GIVEN the user taps a playable station item on the car head unit
- WHEN `playFromMediaId(id)` is called
- THEN the id is resolved to an `Emisora` via the existing resolution logic (`_emisoraDesdeMediaItem`)
- AND playback starts through the existing `playMediaItem` internal path
- AND no separate or duplicated playback logic is executed

#### Scenario: Unknown or stale media id

- GIVEN `playFromMediaId` is called with an id that no longer resolves to a known station
- WHEN resolution fails
- THEN playback does not start and no unhandled exception propagates from the handler

### Requirement: Playback State Synchronization

Play/pause/stop state changes MUST remain synchronized between the car head unit and the phone UI, regardless of which side initiated the change.

#### Scenario: User pauses from the car

- GIVEN a station is playing and projected to the car
- WHEN the user pauses from the car head unit
- THEN the phone UI reflects the paused state via the shared `MediaSession`/`PlaybackState`

#### Scenario: User pauses from the phone

- GIVEN a station is playing and projected to the car
- WHEN the user pauses from the phone UI
- THEN the car head unit reflects the paused state via the same shared session