screentinker/android/app
Claude 452c286357 Stop a YouTube embed when the playlist moves off it
The video kept playing behind the next item and its audio carried on over the top: "even when the
picture is there the sound from the video continues playing."

Switching away only set the WebView's visibility to GONE, and visibility is not playback state — a
hidden WebView keeps running. The three paths that leave a YouTube item (image mount, local video,
streamed video) all hid it and none stopped it. stop() has always blanked the WebView with
about:blank; the item-switch paths simply never did.

This could not surface before 1.9.26, because a YouTube item never advanced at all, so nothing ever
switched away from one. Fixing the advance is what exposed it.

The reporter narrowed it further without being asked, and their finding names the mechanism exactly:
"picture, video -> the sound continues when the picture comes after the video. picture, video,
html/text -> the sound do not play after the video." A widget loads a new URL into the SAME WebView,
which replaces the YouTube page and stops it; an image only hides it. One case was silent and the
other was not for precisely that reason.

stopYoutubeIfPlaying() is guarded on the OUTGOING type, so it must be called before currentType is
reassigned, and it cannot blank a widget that is being reused. Blanking is safe because playYoutube
reloads the embed from scratch on every play.

Verified on an Android 12 emulator, counting the app's own started audio players against the item on
screen, before and after:
  1.9.27 as released — image on screen, 1 player still started (the reported fault)
  with this fix      — image on screen, 0 players started; 1 only while the video is up

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
2026-07-30 19:33:15 -05:00
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src Stop a YouTube embed when the playlist moves off it 2026-07-30 19:33:15 -05:00
build.gradle.kts chore(release): v1.9.27 2026-07-30 19:16:55 -05:00
proguard-rules.pro Initial open source release 2026-04-08 12:14:53 -05:00