[Voice To Content] AudioRecorder improvements

[pantstamp]

Fixes #
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-mobile/issues/93
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-mobile/issues/94
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-mobile/issues/95
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-mobile/issues/96

This PR introduces some minor improvements for the AudioRecorder like better error handling, recording params special values, threshold values to ensure that recording constraints are met.

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To Test:

Please review the code and follow the steps below to ensure that nothing is broken.

• Install and launch the app
• Login into a site in which you have access to create posts
• Navigate to Me > Debug Settings
• Enable voice_to_content and restart the app
• Navigate to My Site
• Tap the FAB
• Tap the microphone
• Give the "Record audio" permission.
• Say something
• Tap the "stop" icon

✅ Verify the microphone disappears, "Assistant Feature Returned Successfully" text is shown quickly, and then the text changes to what you have said.

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Regression Notes

1. Potential unintended areas of impact

   • TODO

2. What I did to test those areas of impact (or what existing automated tests I relied on)

   • TODO

3. What automated tests I added (or what prevented me from doing so)

   • TODO

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PR Submission Checklist:

• I have completed the Regression Notes.
• I have considered adding accessibility improvements for my changes.
• I have considered if this change warrants user-facing release notes and have added them to RELEASE-NOTES.txt if necessary.

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Testing Checklist (strike-out the not-applying and unnecessary ones):

• WordPress.com sites and self-hosted Jetpack sites.
• Portrait and landscape orientations.
• Light and dark modes.
• Fonts: Larger, smaller and bold text.
• High contrast.
• Talkback.
• Languages with large words or with letters/accents not frequently used in English.
• Right-to-left languages. (Even if translation isn’t complete, formatting should still respect the right-to-left layout)
• Large and small screen sizes. (Tablet and smaller phones)
• Multi-tasking: Split screen and Pop-up view. (Android 10 or higher)

[zwarm]

@pantstamp - I like the improvements. 👏 I have two thoughts. These can definitely be overkill thoughts on my part and I am NOT requesting changes. Just curious to hear your thoughts.

💡
(1) Adding an initialization method that takes an interface for configurable parameters such as maxFileSize, maxDuration, storeInMemory, and recordingFileName. This approach follows the Strategy design pattern, allowing different recording configurations to be easily swapped in and out. Something like this:

interface RecordingStrategy {
    val maxFileSize: Long
    val maxDuration: Int
    val storeInMemory: Boolean
    val recordingFileName: String
} 

and then a VoiceToContentRecordingStrategy.

This could work with interfaces or sealed classes.

sealed class RecordingStrategy {
    data class VoiceToContentRecordingStrategy(
        val maxFileSize: Long = xxx,
        val maxDuration: Int = yyy,
        val recordingFileName: String = "asdfas",
        val storeInMemory: Boolean = true
    ) : RecordingStrategy()
}

(2) Using a sealed class to represent the different outcomes of the recording process instead of a plain String. This method allows for clear differentiation between success and error states and makes the code more maintainable and expressive. Ignore my too long method names and such.

sealed class AudioRecorderFinishedResponse {
    data class Success(val fileNameWithPath: String) : AudioRecorderFinishedResponse()
    data class Error(val errorMessage: String) : AudioRecorderFinishedResponse()
}

You can even use a flow to return the response

wdyt? Am I nuts?

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[dangermattic]

	2 Warnings
⚠️	Class AudioRecorderResult is missing tests, but unit-tests-exemption label was set to ignore this.
⚠️	Class RecordingStrategy is missing tests, but unit-tests-exemption label was set to ignore this.

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Project coverage is 40.94%. Comparing base (84df633) to head (91a4f5b).
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[pantstamp]

@pantstamp - I like the improvements. 👏 I have two thoughts. These can definitely be overkill thoughts on my part and I am NOT requesting changes. Just curious to hear your thoughts.

💡 (1) Adding an initialization method that takes an interface for configurable parameters such as maxFileSize, maxDuration, storeInMemory, and recordingFileName. This approach follows the Strategy design pattern, allowing different recording configurations to be easily swapped in and out. Something like this:

interface RecordingStrategy {
    val maxFileSize: Long
    val maxDuration: Int
    val storeInMemory: Boolean
    val recordingFileName: String
} 

and then a VoiceToContentRecordingStrategy.

This could work with interfaces or sealed classes.

sealed class RecordingStrategy {
    data class VoiceToContentRecordingStrategy(
        val maxFileSize: Long = xxx,
        val maxDuration: Int = yyy,
        val recordingFileName: String = "asdfas",
        val storeInMemory: Boolean = true
    ) : RecordingStrategy()
}

(2) Using a sealed class to represent the different outcomes of the recording process instead of a plain String. This method allows for clear differentiation between success and error states and makes the code more maintainable and expressive. Ignore my too long method names and such.

sealed class AudioRecorderFinishedResponse {
    data class Success(val fileNameWithPath: String) : AudioRecorderFinishedResponse()
    data class Error(val errorMessage: String) : AudioRecorderFinishedResponse()
}

You can even use a flow to return the response

wdyt? Am I nuts?

Both ideas are great @zwarm ! I pushed some extra commits that include these implementations. Thank you!!!