I have found the wavy bar to be both aesthetically displeasing and functionally worse. I have a harder time understanding where I am in a song or podcast and feel like changing that position is harder since the position doesn’t visually track with my finger directly. Very frustrating all around.

As someone else said, it would be a cute thing for a single app, but it should not have been made a part of the android design language.

I wish I could turn it off. Just seems unnecessary.

No, they suck, but nobody gives a shit about good UI design any more

Can’t wait to completely ditch Android at this point. Mobile Linux still needs some time though, comparing to past years we’re quite close I feel.

It would be a cute detail, if one media player did that, but it being part of the general OS design language got me tired of it pretty quickly…

I absolutely love material expressive, my fav design language (second is libdwaita).

This is part of Google’s Material 3 Expressive (M3E for short). A lot of apps have taken the reasonable approach of using the the Android design (M3E) to fit into the system (Also Android happens to make your life easier if you use M3E). This design language sucks in some parts. I personally don’t have an issue with the wavy progress bars, but i agree they should’ve added the option to turn it off.

If you don’t mind all animations being disabled you can get rid of the wiggling by turning on reduced motion.

Edit: It’s called Remove Animations and is located in the Accesibility settings under the Motion mmenu. It also seems to only disable the movement in the media notification for my music player (Auxio), likely a bug, will report to upstream.

I was surprised when they added that to android auto and kind of like that the waves let me better estimate how far along the song is. I do think the waves on that are too big, a slight wave would be better. The ability to adjust the waves and turn it off would be best.

Not sure how the wave looks on LineageOS, just commenting on the wavy progress bar concept.

the incredibly stupid part is that on the developers side it was in alpha/beta for a long time. you literally had to use a beta version of the material library to add a progress bar, because the older one was not included. I’m not even sure it’s ready now

I haven’t seen the LineageOS version, but generally I don’t think I really care all that much. It’s fine I suppose?

I hate the bars but I am still on stock for now.

Could somebody show some context for this?