Simple media app guide for a newbie

[dsjstc]

I'd like to follow this Simple Media Player guide, but it doesn't trivially build.

My last android project was before Compose, so I don't really know what I'm looking at... but I think the PlayerScreen instructions need to be updated. I can't make it compile with a relatively recent install of Electric Eel, with what I think are the current Compose dependencies.

Can someone please link me to a version of this project updated to use current libraries, or with a functional build.gradle pointing to the old ones that worked when the page was published?

[yschimke]

As a starting point, try opening the Horologist project in Android Studio Flamingo. You should be able to immediately run the media/sample app.

If there are problems with the examples compiling can you post them in a bug and we can fix. Thanks for flagging this.

[luizgrp]

but it doesn't trivially build.

Could you please paste the text or a screenshot of the error you are seeing?

[luizgrp]

fyi we've made some improvements to the guide and fixed some issues with the code

[dsjstc]

Turns out my Studio install was badly broken. This recipe is working fine on Eel after a reinstall.

As long as I'm here though, here are two minor points that could smooth the path for future newbies:

• Guide says add media-ui dependency to project build.grade. I could only make it work at the bottom of the app build.gradle.
• Guide uses undefined gradle variables $horologist_version and $media3_version. I defined them in gradle.properties, but maybe for simplicity the guide should just hardcode current-as-of-now version numbers.

Thanks again, this is awesome!

[luizgrp]

Thanks for confirming!
For future reference, this repo has the code of that guide in a wear app, ready to be run.
The first part of the guide is in the main branch, the second part is in the functional branch.