Lotus

• Swipe the album art to change track. Lotus now speaks Turkish in full and French in part, and four fixes land, including wrong times on tracks over an hour and the player's action row hiding behind the artwork on small screens.
• ● Added
• ・Swipe the album art to change track. In the expanded player, drag the artwork sideways: left for the next track, right for the previous one. Right does exactly what the skip-back button does, so with "jump to beginning" on — which is the default — swiping right more than three seconds into a track restarts that track rather than going back; swipe right again from the start to reach the previous track. A drag has to travel about 50dp before it counts, and any drag with a clear sideways component counts, including a diagonal one. Works in landscape too, and mirrors in right-to-left layouts. Contributed by @bxdxnn. (#66)
• ● Languages
• Untranslated strings fall back to English one by one, so nothing appears blank.
• ・Turkish, contributed by @KerimDemirkaynak. Complete — all 362 strings. (#149, #156) ・French, contributed by Mickaël Binos. 122 of 362 strings so far, and growing as translation continues. (#156)
• ● Fixed
• ・Tracks longer than an hour showed a wrong time. The player counted minutes from the start of the track instead of from the start of the hour, while still showing an hours field beside them — so a six-hour mixtape read 06:372:49 instead of 6:12:49, and the elapsed time beside it was wrong the same way. Anything under an hour was always correct. (#159) ・Track info shows hours for long tracks. The duration there was minutes and seconds only, so the same mixtape read 372:49. It now reads 6:12:49, matching the player. ・Fixed a crash that could close the app at startup. Lotus tints itself from the colours in the current track's artwork. When that colour extraction came back empty — which it can — the app shut down instead of quietly falling back to its normal colours. It now falls back. ・The player's top row of buttons was invisible on small screens. Shuffle and repeat, the queue, lyrics, the sleep timer and the track menu were being drawn behind the album art instead of above it, so on a short screen they disappeared entirely — and because they were still there, tapping the top of the artwork could silently change the repeat mode or open the queue. The artwork now shrinks to make room. This affected any short screen, not only the phone it was reported on. (#125)

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