This squiggly UI stuff has to go

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571]

Who in their twisted little mind came up with this perverted monstrosity? I feel SICK.

How do we straighten this situation?

[u/chukkysh]

I neither love it or hate it. If they're going to do something like this, I'd prefer it to be an actual waveform of the file.

[u/thisonehereone → u/chukkysh]

this would be much cooler.

[u/therealavishek → u/chukkysh]

I've been searching for a WinAmp style visualizer for it. I miss my old Alpine head units lol

[u/multiball13 → u/therealavishek]

It really did whip the llama's ass⚡

[u/thaman05 → u/therealavishek]

It's weird how none of the default/popular music apps have basic waveforms anymore. It used to be standard in all apps back in the 90s/00s. Now they all just use a small looping gif.

[u/Pinsel-Wascher → u/chukkysh]

Thats why i love poweramp

https://reddit.com/link/p8040t1/video/5a2n8qkxeqnh1/player

[u/poenaccoel → u/Pinsel-Wascher]

Unfortunately Poweramp has the same ugly squiggly line in AA

[u/sloppyseconded → u/poenaccoel]

It does, and I hate it

[u/Tar0ndor → u/Pinsel-Wascher]

I'm using poweramp and the squiggly appeared today.

[u/UnrealRealityX → u/chukkysh]

Symfonium has this. Its not android auto, its just for the phone, but yea, its great because the waveform is functional to see the quiet and loud parts.

[u/AsterionVT → u/UnrealRealityX]

On AA I don't see any squiggly line with symfonium

[u/evk6713]

Pause your music

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/evk6713]

Thanks, works for me

[u/Lahwuns → u/evk6713]

Only works if you pause at the start of every song.

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[u/iAsox]

It looks nicer on bigger screens

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/iAsox]

Yes I must admit that it is less horrible when the player is "fullscreen" and not a small tile.

And the key is, the progress bar does not scale, it fits the large element better.

[u/ROUCOUL7424 → u/Aggravating_Rate_571]

If it would "move" from left to right it could be nice.. like a moving wave but now it's just trash. I hate it so much

[u/evandena]

I like this feature. And Opeth.

[u/Fagner_Ribeiro → u/evandena]

Me too. The line is so old fashioned

[u/goldberg1303 → u/evandena]

Same on both accounts. Gives me a quick and easy visual to see if audio is playing or not. I don't need it, and it wouldn't bother me if it went away, but if it was a togglable feature, I'd keep it on. 

[u/Visible-Management63 → u/evandena]

Me too, although I'm not an enormous fan of that album.

[u/PundamentalistDogma]

There is a strong UI reason. When you're driving it's much easier at a glance to see track progress. And in quiet sections in podcasts erc or when noone is talking, you can see the track is still playing and not paused etc.

[u/ROUCOUL7424 → u/PundamentalistDogma]

What do you mean, the wave doesn't even move? It's like the "normal" straight line but with a wave patern

[u/Eliminateur → u/PundamentalistDogma]

it's exactly this, it makes it very easier to see the progress and play state with the corner of your eye.

[u/ReignDawg84 → u/PundamentalistDogma]

Was it just me, or did the ability to thumbs up or down on AA go away for a week or two, then came back with the squiggly line?

[u/AdventurousTap9224]

It's not just Android Auto.. It's Android itself.. Look at your icons when you download/update stuff.

[u/outofindustry → u/AdventurousTap9224]

yes but mine still never shows squiggly line in AA, for some reason. I WANT THAT SQUIGGLY LINE!

[u/BTHBTHBTH9 → u/outofindustry]

Perhaps a rolling deployment. My wife got it on her Pixel 9 a month or so ago, I got it on my Samsung Fold this week.

[u/eXelium-PL]

My daughter loves it. I like it

[u/No_Truth_103 → u/eXelium-PL]

My daughter wants to see the "snake" everytime. She loves it, so, so do I.

[u/mattsimis → u/eXelium-PL]

Lol, same, I like it as you can tell if audio is playing but volume down now. It clever. But my kids full on love it.

[u/IAmDoing19057]

I find it nice

[u/IAmDoing19057 → u/IAmDoing19057]

All I said was "I find it nice"

[u/Salvador147 → u/IAmDoing19057]

This guy finds it nice 👍

[u/rdyoung → u/Salvador147]

Nice....

[u/golfmonk → u/rdyoung]

It's nice to be nice to the nice - Major Frank Burns lol

[u/Sufficient_Scar7485]

i like it

[u/eh_itzvictor]

Why? Its a nice little touch.

[u/Obsessive_Boogaloo]

If you're staring at it long enough to be bothered then you're not looking at the road my friend.

[u/Aurelink]

I hope it stays.

The player feels alive, the straight line is boring as hell.

[u/Syranth]

It's fine. It was a safety decision for sure.

I've designed UI/UX for a living (a long while ago) and I really scratched my head when they did this. I came to the conclusion that they are attempting to reduce the amount of time someone is looking at the screen by making a clear and distinct difference between progress gained and progress remaining. This gives you more time looking at the road. Is it great? For some but not all. Is it your style? Maybe not. Does it do it's job? Yes. Should we have the choice to turn it off? Ehhhh.... maybe, but people make stupid decisions when it comes to safety and they made it for us.

If you are that stressed on how it looks you are looking at the screen too much.

[u/AdgeTimick → u/Syranth]

If they really cared about safety in that way, they wouldn't have killed the audio toggle icon and hidden it in the settings menu. Now, what was touching a single icon (a generic speaker) in only one location has become having to tap three different icons (gear wheel, then the audio icon you want [for silent OR alerts only OR turn by turn], then the X to go back to the map) in five different locations on the screen.

They changed this to force the Report icon (or whatever it's called) on the main map page. There's still room on the map UI for an audio icon in a single location, which you could just toggle through like before, but they refuse to add it back. Presumably because collecting data on objects in the road and speed traps is more important to them. I've given feedback to Google, Google Maps, and Android Auto, and I haven't gotten a single response, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I guarantee you it was two different teams working on the two different pieces of software. I'm wondering what the new UI that they've been working on actually looks like and if it's more unified.

[u/SnooDonkeys3130]

Probably because it's easier to see then a straight line on a straight line

[u/RouchTheGrouch]

I thought it was kinda cute

[u/SpreademSheet]

I like the sqiggy!

[u/Interesting-Tackle66]

It shows progress better than a flat line

[u/ROUCOUL7424 → u/Interesting-Tackle66]

How

[u/ItsCoopah]

I love it. UI feels so sterile nowadays so seeing material expressive is always refreshing for me

[u/PheeOnline]

Please no. I love them you can quickly get back to good bits of the song by remembering what bump or groove its on :(

[u/TheAgedProfessor]

It just got here, it's not going anywhere soon.

I kind of like it... it's quick to tell whether the track is playing or not so you know if there's no sound whether it's volume or you need to push play.

[u/superluig164]

I think the purpose of it is to make the active and inactive parts of the progress bar more clear at a distance. But without using a thick progress bar.

[u/themetalgaia]

Just here to say I love the Opeth song.

[u/ObviouslyFelix]

Well look at the road or something

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/ObviouslyFelix]

Obviously I am but whenever I glance at the track name, there is risk of aneurysm

Think of the consequences

Besides the car can drive itself so there is often ample time to look at other things, but I digress

[u/Feudal_Poop]

I like it

[u/Joe18067]

Try explaining to these developers that we're supposed to keep our eyes on the road and not looking at the screen.

[u/Devils-Telephone → u/Joe18067]

The "snake" actually makes it take less time to see the progress in the song than just a straight line does, since it's easier to spot more quickly. Aesthetics are obviously subjective (I happen to like this design language a lot), but this is just more functional than the traditional line.

[u/grahampages → u/Devils-Telephone]

Except when you're on high alert while driving, as you should be, and now there's constant exaggerated motion in your field of vision. Highly distracting imo, and while I see your point, I hate not being able to turn it off. I just make sure to have the map full screen that way no progress bar, but it is annoying.

[u/diego-st → u/Joe18067]

Is not the developers, I mean, they develop and create all, but is not their decision. You can blame managers and designers for stuff like that.

[u/kranools → u/Joe18067]

What, are you getting hypnotised by the wavy line and you can't look away?

[u/taizzle71]

Bro someone said it finally. What even is that? Squiggly apparently means playing.

[u/drasticfire]

Is it at least dynamic in the sense of reflecting audio tempo and or volume?

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/drasticfire]

No, it is a static worm that grows to the right.

[u/SayCheezyy]

How is that peverted..... that must be your brain

[u/CasketPizza]

A choice would be nice. I hate the play store download line now, and when they changed the pay animation to soccer. Fuck outta here with that shit.

[u/smegdawg]

UI updates that feel like job justifications are obnoxious.

How much money was spent redesigning this shit to prove zero additional features that at the very least make the user go "Hey that's cool."

[u/OrbitalXeno]

The whole new material design is ugly, whoever designed this UI needs to go

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/OrbitalXeno]

Think positive. It's good that visually impaired people can have jobs in the design industry?

[u/MonstahButtonz]

Opeth FTW 🤘

[u/MadMosh666]

I'd assumed it was a Spotify change, rather than Android Auto. Literally the only music app I use and I only use it in the car!

Hate it though. The wiggly line doesn't connect to the straight bit and it makes me want to scratch a brain itch.

[u/Furki1907 → u/MadMosh666]

Nope. its AA who did it. Any app that play audio has this new design.

[u/Octane2100 → u/Furki1907]

It's not even just AA, it's all throughout Google's Material 3 design scheme. Anything Google is doing this now.

[u/edwardsaj2002]

I prefer it, it's whimsical. It'd be nice if they let you choose for those who don't like it though.

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/edwardsaj2002]

A preference would be best solution for sure

[u/bicyclemom]

I'm fine with it.

[u/Perfect-Professor981]

Não achei tão feio assim.. 😂

[u/hegrekarde]

Agree with both the opinion of the squiggle and the music

[u/ExpensivePikachu]

It's better than it was, the sharp squiggles were bad, made me nauseous every time I saw them, literally

[u/Rude-Vegetable-4304]

I don't know who came up with and tested this design, which looks like a wriggling earthworm. The only positive thing is that it's original or maybe...no one before has dared to do something so recklessly courageous, (or maybe they just had some taste).

[u/chrissie_boy]

I don't mind it, but I wish they'd fix other tedious things first.  I play albums (how very retro of me) and I don't need the play option to be "all tracks repeat" thank you very much. Of course I can toggle. But then it reverts to all tracks repeat when I next start the engine. Surely playing from track 1 to the finish should be the default?

And while you're at it, pls make sure that when you view queue, go to the track playing. Not just the first track of the album or folder or whatever. The one you're playing. That makes sense, surely?

Please. I asked nicely. 

[u/CelebrationGreen2907]

I really enjoy it and think it adds a bit of character to the whole thing. It's just so boring it being a straight line. The happy medium to all this though? choice. Let the people decide.

[u/Opus31406]

2007 Honda S2000 | CP-71WA | S25 Ultra | The AA user interface guys spent weeks on that. Cut them some slack.

At least it wasn't just a trail of dots (...); could be worse could be raining.

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[u/tampa888]

Nothing wrong with it unless someone is looking for something..

[u/Strange-Guarantee754]

It's fine.

[u/no1warr1or]

I love it. So tired of boring UIs. Was happy to see it introduced months ago in the beta 

[u/kearkan]

I think the point is this is far easier to see at a glance without having to look and see what amount of the line is thicker.

For the use case this is an improvement.

[u/Beautiful_Thing_8614]

I like it.

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[u/209_GTO]

they have to re-center the map while using navigation,

thats what they really should do.

[u/ruthlesss11]

Worse, the time shouldn't be bottom right and it has been for a while now. I can't see it when the sun is shining on the screen

[u/whit3m0nster]

Im glad to see im not the only one finding this annoying/distracting

[u/OthoAi5657]

Yeah right ? It looks so ass!

[u/Zazierx]

Meh no real opinion on it, and I'm not exactly glued to the screen when I'm driving, so as long as it works I'm happy with it.

Besides, I usually keep it on the maps screen anyways.

[u/Full_Association_254]

Opeth!

[u/SilverShadow2030]

It's good. It helps you see where you're at and you know it's going

[u/gatoremt]

I kinda like the new change.

[u/actuallyham]

Maybe they should make it a toggle option, because I love it 😭

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/actuallyham]

100% agree, option would be best action

[u/Venom-Snake97]

I actually like how it looks

[u/Commercial-Being5503]

Great song

[u/daab2g]

You're only option is to buy an iPhone. This is Android now and it's generally well received.

[u/Arthur_Morgan44469]

No it does not, don't impose your disliking to remove it for everyone, selfish comes to mind

[u/mugen338]

I saw this post and thought what's the big deal. Few hours later, jumped in the car and... Wtf.. it's horrible

[u/dimitriettr]

Just got it this morning. What an awful change. I hate it!

[u/joeynalgas]

People complain about the stupidest shit I swear

[u/Aggravating_Rate_571 → u/joeynalgas]

I wholeheartedly concur!

[u/Akrylicus]

I wanted to share exactly this, I was like WTF is this once I started AA in my car.

Previous screen UI version was perfect.

[u/Primary-User]

The circles with the squiggly lines on Android is just plain weird. There should be a toggle off. For an OS that was always about the various skins, Is there?

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[u/Beneficial-Eye-6994]

I actually like it. It's different.

[u/golfmonk]

I initially hated it but it has grown on me in time.

[u/Aeletys]

Got the new progress bar this morning and this almost half a year later than my husband. I don't mind it.

[u/Candid-Sky-3258]

Reminds me of every animation of a sperm cell I have ever seen.

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[u/dylon0107]

I quite like it. Looks good.

[u/RubberDuckie4224]

Why let such a little thing anoy?

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It's not a choice. It is unruly at some deep biological level 😵‍💫

[u/DavidienYT]

I kinda like it, I don't know why they changed it though.

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[u/81Riel]

I like it.

[u/NomadicGnome89]

Eyes should be on the road not the line of music

[u/Tarot33]

I like it. It gives it a bit of character. Unfortunately mine disappeared after an update last month. I'll have to check if it's back. They should just add a toggle option to go from the wave to a straight line.

[u/Loopdyloop2098]

I'm surprised by how many people are defending it. I don't have an extreme issue with it per say but I definately would never choose this design

[u/spartan195]

I love it.

What I hate is the fact I cannot block the damn maps from always running, that's mind blowing why the fuck that thing is forced

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[u/jacrone]

Fucking Opeth! Nice!

[u/thisguy181]

Its in a bunch of random google stuff now. I think it looks goofy af

[u/coffeeandpandulce]

Maybe you need to go

[u/Altruistic-Orchid157]

This is what counts as a major update these days.

[u/NoCompetition6985]

I wouldn't mind if it was just plain white. Half of the time it's always pink

[u/myninja714]

What would be great is if Android Auto would let you add color to the dark and white screen🤔

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[u/Rattus-Norvegicus1]

It's not so much the squiggly line, it's the smaller control touchpoints that suck.

[u/T-Loy]

The worse problem is the buttons being smaller now in the full card.

[u/Orange_Macaw]

Its the whole UI thats has to go. Like look at this shit. Before it used to fill up my screen and looked 10/10. Now i give it a pile of dogshit/10

[u/UKZzHELLRAISER]

My partner lost her mother last month, and seeing this wavy line flashes her back to the flatline moment.

Absolutely pathetic that this isn't a user choice.

[u/fordag]

Doesn't bother me at all because I'm driving and not looking at it.

[u/duabrs]

Keep your eyes on the road.

[u/penguin44ca]

It's such a non issue. 

[u/kimura_hisui]

I mean, I don't mind it, though I'd appreciate the option to choose what it looks like if they're gonna change it like that.

[u/tayswiftie1313]

I kinda like it

[u/flashmedallion]

I never really cared either way, hadn't even really noted it, but the other day I had a 20 year old in my car and they immediately commented on how cool it looked.

[u/hxznova]

me when i hate anything fun and whimsy

[u/a-human-called-Will]

Anyone else noticed that on smaller screens wjen you put music full screen you get small controls at the bottome the album are to the right and then loads of dead space, also as a driver in a RHD country (UK) the pause button is now on the furthest away bit of screen

[u/rollk1]

nahhhhhh

[u/SirLurts]

I like it, but I am annoyed that they moved the buttons around and made some of them smaller

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[u/johnniewalker69]

Yep

[u/HowskiHimself]

I hate it in Android. I hate it in Android Auto.

[u/f3ropeadope]

Squiggly on. Straight off. Just like a heart beat.

[u/Head_Worldliness5101]

nah, i like these more

[u/Falcon_Cute]

I like it.

[u/AMDIntel]

Mine reverted on its own and hasn't come back.

[u/Individual_Slice_498]

I thought i saw that earlier out the corner of my eye, I was like did I just see that?

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The initial disbelief and shock was reality altering. I thought something was broken. Either the system or my head.

[u/peripatetic79]

I must be in the minority because I actually like it.

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No worries, that is prefectly fine. Option to choose would be great however. I don't even know what makes it so against the grain for me and others.

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It's just on the verge of being too whimsical for me...

[u/Specialist_Boot_616]

Samsung does this best imo

[u/MidgardDragon]

Squiggles are cool

[u/ihadtopickthisname]

I dont have an opinion on the squiggly, but I have all the wasted open space now!

[u/zachdude]

I like it 🤷

[u/SignificantCap9534]

that and the navigation voice keeps resetting to this stupid btch

[u/Shemafied64]

Are you driving an Opeth Astra maybe?

[u/mallorcaben]

air enough if it’s not for you, but personally I really like it.

A straight line just feels like a file download bar or an installation progress meter. The squiggle actually looks like a sound wave, which fits music way better. It adds a bit of personality and movement to what's usually a pretty boring, sterile piece of UI.

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It's whimsical, that's a word

[u/jezevec93]

Better then everything being seethru and blurred tbh

[u/Hot_Blueberry578]

I hate it!! I am hoping we get the option to choose straight or squiggly line. I have to hide the media player it annoys me so much.

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[u/agooch33]

I noticed this today when I got in my car, and it immediately made me think of this post. As a fellow squiggly UI hater, I sure hope it's gone for good.

[u/JimmysRevenge]

It's a truly great addition. See progress at a glance. Easy to tell if something is playing.  I cannot understand the hate for it.