# 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 `` - AND the `AndroidManifest.xml` `` block declares `` - 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:` scheme distinct from the `emisora:` playable-item scheme #### Scenario: Car requests a group folder's stations - GIVEN a favorite group folder with id `grupo:` was returned under `Favoritos` - WHEN `getChildren` is called with that `grupo:` folder id - THEN it returns the playable `MediaItem`s for exactly the stations whose `Emisora.grupoFavoritosId` matches `` - 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:` playback path, unchanged #### Scenario: Car requests an unknown or stale group id - GIVEN a `grupo:` 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:` - 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, and the local-music root) 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"). The local-music root folder is non-playable and may itself be nested (see "Local Music Browsable Tree"). (Previously: root contained exactly 3 folders — Favoritos, Todas las emisoras, Mis emisoras — with no EQ or local-music 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 five folder `MediaItem`s (Favoritos, Todas las emisoras, Mis emisoras, Ecualizador, and the local-music root), 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:` 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:` media-id scheme, separate from `emisora:` and `grupo:`. #### 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:`, where `` is that preset's unique name ### Requirement: EQ Preset Selection Applies Without Disturbing Playback Selecting an `eq_preset:` 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:` 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:` 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:` id whose `` 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:` 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: Local Music Root Access and Permission Persistence The system MUST let the user select a local-music root folder via SAF (`ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE`), persist the granted URI permission, and MUST NOT crash or leave the local-music root folder in a broken state if that permission is later lost or was never granted. #### Scenario: User picks a local music root folder - GIVEN the user opens the local-music setup flow - WHEN they complete the SAF folder picker and grant access - THEN the selected folder's URI permission is persisted - AND the local-music root becomes browsable in Android Auto without re-prompting the picker #### Scenario: Persisted permission survives app restart - GIVEN a local music root was previously picked and its permission persisted - WHEN the app is restarted (cold start) - THEN the local-music root remains browsable in Android Auto without re-prompting the SAF picker #### Scenario: Permission revoked or never granted - GIVEN the SAF permission for the local-music root was revoked outside the app, or no root was ever picked - WHEN the local-music root folder is browsed in Android Auto - THEN `getChildren` returns an empty or explanatory list, not an error - AND the audio handler does not throw or crash ### Requirement: Local Music Browsable Tree The Android Auto browse tree MUST expose a new non-playable local-music root folder alongside the existing station folders. Browsing that root and any nested subfolder MUST recursively mirror the picked SAF folder's structure: subfolders as non-playable `carpeta_local:` items and audio files as playable `pista:` items resolving to `PistaLocal` instances, using the raw filename as the displayed title. #### Scenario: Car browses the local-music root - GIVEN a local music root folder was picked and its permission is valid - WHEN `getChildren` is called with the local-music root folder id - THEN it returns the root's immediate subfolders as `carpeta_local:` items and audio files as `pista:` playable items - AND each playable item's title is the file's raw filename #### Scenario: Car browses a nested subfolder - GIVEN a `carpeta_local:` folder returned from a prior browse call - WHEN `getChildren` is called with that folder id - THEN it returns that subfolder's own contents (nested folders and/or tracks), recursively mirroring the on-device structure - AND browsing an empty subfolder returns an empty list, not an error ### Requirement: Local Track Playback Reuses Existing Pipeline Selecting a `pista:` item MUST resolve to the corresponding `PistaLocal` and play it through the existing `playMediaItem`/`PluriWaveAudioHandler` pipeline, unchanged, including the shared EQ signal chain. #### Scenario: User selects a local track - GIVEN the user taps a `pista:` playable item on the car head unit - WHEN `playFromMediaId(id)` is called - THEN the id resolves to a `PistaLocal` and playback starts through the existing `playMediaItem` internal path - AND standard transport (play/pause/stop) and fallback album art work as they do for stations #### Scenario: EQ still applies to local track playback (regression guard) - GIVEN a non-flat EQ preset is currently the active/principal preset - WHEN a `pista:` item is played - THEN the audible output passes through the same shared EQ signal chain used for station playback, with no separate or bypassed path for local tracks #### Scenario: Unknown or stale track id - GIVEN `playFromMediaId` is called with a `pista:` that no longer resolves to a known `PistaLocal` - WHEN resolution fails - THEN playback does not start and no unhandled exception propagates from the handler ### Requirement: Local Music Folder Item Cap and Paging A local-music folder (root or nested) whose immediate children exceed `_maxItemsCarpetaLocal` (50) MUST NOT silently truncate the excess items. `getChildren` MUST return at most 50 items for the requested page, followed by a trailing non-playable, browsable "more" item whenever additional items remain beyond that page. Selecting the "more" item MUST invoke `getChildren` again and reveal the next page of up to 50 items, continuing until every item in the folder has been reached; no item may be permanently unreachable. A page that exhausts the folder's remaining items MUST NOT include a "more" item. (Previously: folders exceeding 50 immediate children were capped to 50 with the remainder silently dropped; pagination was explicitly out of scope.) #### Scenario: Folder exceeds the item cap - GIVEN a picked or nested local-music folder contains more than 50 immediate children (subfolders and/or tracks combined) - WHEN `getChildren` is called with that folder id for the first page - THEN exactly 50 items are returned for that page, followed by a trailing "more" item - AND no error or crash occurs, and no item is permanently unreachable #### Scenario: Folder has exactly 50 items (boundary) - GIVEN a local-music folder contains exactly 50 immediate children - WHEN `getChildren` is called with that folder id - THEN all 50 items are returned - AND no "more" item is appended, since nothing remains to reveal #### Scenario: Folder with 51-100 items pages in two steps - GIVEN a local-music folder contains between 51 and 100 immediate children - WHEN `getChildren` is called with that folder id - THEN the first page returns 50 items plus a trailing "more" item - AND WHEN the user selects that "more" item, `getChildren` is invoked again - THEN it returns the remaining items with no further "more" item, since that is the last page #### Scenario: Folder with 100+ items chains across 3+ pages - GIVEN a local-music folder contains more than 100 immediate children - WHEN the user repeatedly selects each returned page's "more" item - THEN each intermediate page returns 50 items plus a trailing "more" item - AND the final page returns only the remaining items with no "more" item - AND every item in the folder is reachable through this chain, none dropped #### Scenario: Only the requested page's items are resolved into MediaItems - GIVEN a local-music folder contains more than 50 immediate children - WHEN `getChildren` is called for a given page - THEN only that page's items (at most 50, plus the "more" item) are constructed into full `MediaItem`s (art, resolved title) - AND items belonging to pages not yet requested are NOT constructed into `MediaItem`s as part of that call ### Requirement: Local Music Folder Friendly Name Display The settings UI MUST display a human-readable label for the picked local-music root folder instead of the raw SAF `content://` tree URI. If a friendly name cannot be derived from the persisted URI, the settings UI MUST fall back to a clear, non-empty label rather than showing a broken, blank, or raw-URI value. #### Scenario: Folder picked and friendly name derivable - GIVEN a local-music root folder has been picked and its URI persisted - WHEN the settings screen displays the current folder - THEN it shows a human-readable name derived from the folder, not the raw content URI #### Scenario: Friendly name cannot be derived - GIVEN a persisted local-music root URI whose friendly name cannot be derived (e.g. a malformed or unexpected SAF documentId shape) - WHEN the settings screen displays the current folder - THEN it falls back to a non-empty, non-broken label instead of an empty or corrupted value ### 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