Landscape Android tablet
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Mr Ee
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(Note that I'm replying to the quote, not specifically you!)
The biggest problem, as I see it, with chromecast is the lack of gapless support (roon aside).
One day more peoeple may realise that 24/96 (or even 16/44 !) is not limited in the way the providers / advertisers would try to have you believe...
Mr Ee
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We're way off topic from the original thread, but that one word right there, resolution, is my biggest issue.
It's such a misnomer in this context, yet the connotation is undeniable.
To get back on topic, landscape for android would be great so I don't have to turn my head 90° to use the wiim app.
It's such a misnomer in this context, yet the connotation is undeniable.
To get back on topic, landscape for android would be great so I don't have to turn my head 90° to use the wiim app.
First, please forgive me for not being an answer to this thread.
I bought a new Android tablet, so this is a report about the Landscape screen.
The Xiaomi pad 6 displayed the WHA this way in landscape mode.
This is what it looks like when splitting WHA and AMU.
Patterns with changed size percentages.
At this time, long press the split screen icon displayed in the menu bar to duplicate the icon on the home screen.
This is the AMU "Now playing" screen. (The Cast icon is visible)
This is a floating app. Drag out horizontally to store apps as tabs.
AMU does not support split screen. Therefore, a configuration change is required in the developer options.
Changes to developer options settings.
2 Change the item to On.
* This is a Google Lens Japanese converted to English.
Change Minimum Width to 590dp. (Default is 720)
*This is a setting to avoid PC display and fix (optimize) mobile display.
I bought a new Android tablet, so this is a report about the Landscape screen.
The Xiaomi pad 6 displayed the WHA this way in landscape mode.
This is what it looks like when splitting WHA and AMU.
Patterns with changed size percentages.
At this time, long press the split screen icon displayed in the menu bar to duplicate the icon on the home screen.
This is the AMU "Now playing" screen. (The Cast icon is visible)
This is a floating app. Drag out horizontally to store apps as tabs.
AMU does not support split screen. Therefore, a configuration change is required in the developer options.
Changes to developer options settings.
2 Change the item to On.
* This is a Google Lens Japanese converted to English.
Change Minimum Width to 590dp. (Default is 720)
*This is a setting to avoid PC display and fix (optimize) mobile display.
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Brantome
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The dates in the roadmap are merely targets and actual implementation dates can vary quite a bit. Wait till you see a firmware or app update and check their release notes to see if a new feature has been introduced.
Mr Ee
Major Contributor
So long, I've been looking too hard
I've been waiting too long
Sometimes I don't know what I will find
I only know it's a matter of time
...
I've been waiting for a turn like you to come into my app
Klipscher
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I don’t have a android tablet to test this app. It works on my android dap device so might be worth trying out.
play.google.com
Screen Orientation Control - Apps on Google Play
This is a tool that control the orientation / rotation of the screen
Rockyhill
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That works on my Lenovo Tab M8. Thanks.I don’t have a android tablet to test this app. It works on my android dap device so might be worth trying out.
Screen Orientation Control - Apps on Google Play
This is a tool that control the orientation / rotation of the screen
Dom56
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It does not work with my tablet Samsung 10 inches. It's not easy to use Wiim Home when you are browsing the internet in landscape position, you must turn the tablet each time you want to change songs, albums or playlists on Wiim Home.
This is the first improvement I would like.
This is the first improvement I would like.
Does NOT work on my Lenovo Tab TB-X606F. Sure do wish that it DID!
BUT, the longer you make us WAIT for this simple request, the more you are training us to just use the user interface of Spotify, Pandora, etc. INSTEAD OF using WiiM Home. AND I Don't Think THAT is really what you want, IS IT?
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/07/introducing-new-play-store-for-large-screens.html
and
developer.android.com
BUT, the longer you make us WAIT for this simple request, the more you are training us to just use the user interface of Spotify, Pandora, etc. INSTEAD OF using WiiM Home. AND I Don't Think THAT is really what you want, IS IT?
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/07/introducing-new-play-store-for-large-screens.html
and
Large screen app quality | App quality | Android Developers
developer.android.com
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Brantome
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I think you may find that users prefer using the feature rich interfaces offered by the streaming services‘ own apps and using protocols like Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect and Amazon Music to cast to their WiiM device rather than via third party apps like WiiM which have to use a restricted API.Does NOT work on my Lenovo Tab TB-X606F. Sure do wish that it DID!
BUT, the longer you make us WAIT for this simple request, the more you are training us to just use the user interface of Spotify, Pandora, etc. INSTEAD OF using WiiM Home. AND I Don't Think THAT is really what you want, IS IT?
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/07/introducing-new-play-store-for-large-screens.html
and
Large screen app quality | App quality | Android Developers
So you recommend using the affiliated services native apps over the WiiM Home App of the hardware?!
That would seem to negate one of the main claimed product features of the hardware, a unified user interface.
But NOW that UI seems to be becoming less functional with each passing day.
I didn't buy my WiiM Pro for Roon BUT they MAY just sell me on it anyway.
Is this the official view of ALL the WiiM moderators?
Brantome
Moderator
While I'm a moderator, I am not affiliated with WiiM and therefore don't have an 'official view', just an opinion in common with many other experienced users in the forum.
And while the WiiM product description does include a reference to accessing all your music in one place, it also makes great play of the fact that it supports a range of casting technologies such as Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect and Amazon Music AlexaCast, as well as Airplay 2, ChromeCast and Roon Readiness which allow you to use your preferred native app to send audio to your WiiM device.
Experience tells me, and others, that it's really not feasible to have a full, feature rich single unified user interface for all services as those services do not provide third party APIs with the necessary level of access to mirror what the native apps do.
Dom56
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Hello,
I am a subscribed user of Qobuz via a Androïd tablet. The Qobuz app allows the landscape position but is limited by the Chromecast protocol to 24/96. Bubbleupnp and MConnect apps need to be purchased. What these apps offer, why couldn't Wiim Home? You seem to think it's secondary but for me and others it's more important than USB in my daily use. Everyone has their own needs and must be allowed to share.
Brantome
Moderator
The WiiM Home app has had recent enhancements to its Qobuz interface and may well have further enhancements down the line, and indeed already supports landscape on its iPad app for Qobuz. Far from suggesting it was secondary, I was merely pointing out that what the major streaming apps have been doing has been to add features to their native apps and not keep pace with adding those features to the third party interfaces that companies like WiiM have at their disposal. Indeed, Qobuz themselves have been developing their own casting mechanism (Qobuz Connect) which is expected to see the light of day at the end of this year or start of next.
(also, as an aside, it's not the ChromeCast protocol itself that limits Qobuz to 24/96, it's Qobuz themselves as I reported in this forum a good while ago. The WiiM Pro is capable of supporting 24/196 over Chromecast)
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