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What I changed

I redesigned the Android phone featured hero as a swipeable row of textless poster artwork with the movie or show logo layered over it. Only the first Home row becomes the hero when that exact row is marked Featured; Featured rows placed lower down remain normal rows.

The finished hero includes:

  • clean textless artwork with separate logo, poster, and title fallbacks
  • a short tagline-style quote plus rating, genres, runtime, and age rating
  • Play/Resume and More Info actions through the existing navigation and playback paths
  • automatic movement every 10 seconds, direct swiping, continuous wrapping, and item-count-driven progress dots
  • aligned Silo remote, search, and profile controls with no carousel controls covering the art

Settings → Interface now supports three deliberate Home states:

  • Card layout on (default): the existing rounded poster-card hero with its subtle artwork-coloured card glow.
  • Card layout off: a full-width hero with no card, border, side gutter, or glow. The textless artwork begins behind the status/header controls and fades seamlessly into the app background above Continue Watching.
  • Show featured hero off: removes the hero entirely and moves the remaining Home rows up without leaving an empty slot. The Card layout control is disabled while the hero is hidden.

Both switches are device-local, profile/server scoped, default on, and persist across app restarts. Android TV does not receive a new or redesigned hero.

Performance

Artwork colour extraction stays cached and off the main thread, the pager only composes nearby cards, timer progress updates in the render layer instead of recomposing the full hero, and card glow uses a radial gradient instead of a live card-sized blur. Card-off mode skips the glow entirely.

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The client keeps normal poster and title fallbacks when the server artwork endpoint is unavailable.

Testing

  • Shared and Android app unit tests passed, including top-row-only hero promotion and Android TV Featured-row suppression.
  • Android lint passed and the debug APK assembled successfully.
  • The focused local-settings test passed for default-on, persisted Card layout, and device-local behaviour; the updated Android app compiled successfully.
  • I verified both card and full-width layouts in the full Android app shell, including textless artwork, separate logo, profile pill, Continue Watching, and the complete tab bar.
  • The full-width layout was specifically checked for edge-to-edge placement, no card glow, and a seamless fade with no hard line.

Preview

Card layout on (default)

Lanterns Android card hero with the complete mobile app shell

Card layout off (full-width, no glow)

Lanterns Android full-width hero behind the app chrome with a seamless fade into Continue Watching

Show featured hero off

The hero is not rendered; Continue Watching and the other configured Home rows move up to occupy its place.

AI disclosure

I designed the hero, chose and directed its layout and behaviour, and tested each iteration in the Android emulator. I used OpenAI Codex (GPT-5) to help implement and refine the code.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a redesigned featured hero carousel with autoplay progress, artwork fallbacks, dominant-color backgrounds, and improved metadata.
    • Featured content now uses textless artwork when available.
    • Audiobook actions open details, while video actions resume playback.
    • Added glass-style visual treatment to home screen controls.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented featured sections from appearing again in regular content rows.
    • Improved handling of loading, empty, and error states.

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  • android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/settings/AndroidPlayerSettingsStore.kt
  • android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/settings/PlayerSettingsStore.kt
  • android-shared/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/settings/AndroidPlayerSettingsStoreTest.kt
  • android-shared/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/settings/ServerDrivenConfigRefresherTest.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/HomeScreen.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/MobileFeaturedHero.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/settings/SettingsScreen.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/settings/SettingsViewModel.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModelLoadOwnershipIntegrationTest.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/testing/FakePlayerSettingsStore.kt
  • shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/model/settings/PlaybackSettingsKeys.kt
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The change adds a mobile featured-content hero, loads textless poster artwork, separates the top featured section from regular rows, applies shared glass actions, and excludes featured sections from TV rows. Tests cover section selection, playback actions, and row filtering.

Changes

Featured home content

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared featured section split
shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/model/section/FeaturedSplit.kt, shared/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/model/section/FeaturedSplitTest.kt
splitTopFeatured() promotes only a non-empty first featured section and preserves later sections in rest.
Featured artwork data pipeline
shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/model/section/SectionModels.kt, shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/network/api/SectionApi.kt, shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/repository/SectionRepository.kt, shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/viewmodel/HomeViewModel.kt
The app models tagline and textless poster responses, fetches poster URLs in parallel, cancels stale artwork jobs, and publishes current featured artwork.
Mobile featured hero and home integration
androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/HomeScreen.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/MobileFeaturedHero.kt, androidApp/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/MobileFeaturedHeroActionTest.kt
The home screen renders the promoted section in MobileFeaturedHero. The hero adds paging, autoplay, artwork fallbacks, metadata, quote handling, and audiobook-specific actions.
Shared glass action wiring
androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/components/TopBarActions.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/HomeScreen.kt
Top-bar actions accept optional Haze state, and HomeScreen passes shared state to search, profile, and remote-control actions.
TV featured section filtering
androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/home/TvHomeSections.kt, androidTvApp/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/home/TvHomeSectionsTest.kt
TV normalization excludes featured sections from regular rows. The unit test verifies that non-featured sections remain.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5a4a9

The redesigned Android Home hero is mergeable with owner follow-up for a possible timing mismatch after manual swipes and for limiting concurrent artwork requests when a featured row is unusually large.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HomeScreen
  participant HomeViewModel
  participant SectionRepository
  participant SectionApi
  participant MobileFeaturedHero
  HomeScreen->>HomeViewModel: Read featured sections and poster URLs
  HomeViewModel->>SectionRepository: Request textless posters
  SectionRepository->>SectionApi: Call getTextlessPoster(contentId)
  SectionApi-->>HomeViewModel: Return poster URL results
  HomeViewModel-->>HomeScreen: Publish featuredTextlessPosters
  HomeScreen->>MobileFeaturedHero: Render promoted featured content
  MobileFeaturedHero-->>HomeScreen: Dispatch playback or info action
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- Around line 238-240: Update the Featured hero Button onClick around
isAudiobookItemType and item.type so audiobook items call
onInfoClick(item.contentId), while non-audiobooks retain the existing
onPlayClick(item.contentId, item.positionSeconds) behavior.
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shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/viewmodel/HomeViewModel.kt (1)

262-293: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider bounding the poster fan-out.

refreshFeaturedArtwork starts one request per featured item at once. A large server-configured featured row issues that many parallel requests and competes with other Home requests on a phone connection. A small concurrency limit (for example a chunked or semaphore-guarded fan-out) keeps latency predictable.

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In `@shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/viewmodel/HomeViewModel.kt`
around lines 262 - 293, Limit concurrency in refreshFeaturedArtwork when
fetching textless posters so featured items do not all issue requests
simultaneously. Use a small bounded fan-out, such as chunking or a semaphore
around sectionRepository.getTextlessPoster, while preserving cancellation,
result mapping, and the existing generation check.
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In
`@androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/MobileFeaturedHero.kt`:
- Around line 143-155: Update the LaunchedEffect using pagerState and items.size
to collect snapshotFlow of pagerState.settledPage with collectLatest, restarting
the delay whenever the settled page changes before advancing. Do not collect
isScrollInProgress; retain the guard needed to avoid advancing during manual
scrolling and preserve the existing automatic animation behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/viewmodel/HomeViewModel.kt`:
- Around line 262-293: Limit concurrency in refreshFeaturedArtwork when fetching
textless posters so featured items do not all issue requests simultaneously. Use
a small bounded fan-out, such as chunking or a semaphore around
sectionRepository.getTextlessPoster, while preserving cancellation, result
mapping, and the existing generation check.
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  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/components/TopBarActions.kt
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  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/home/MobileFeaturedHero.kt
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  • shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/network/api/SectionApi.kt
  • shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/repository/SectionRepository.kt
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