Feature Request: YouTube Music-style Now Playing UI + Cast Button

[pratbhoir]

Summary

I've made some local UI updates to the Now Playing screen of the app, inspired by the YouTube Music design. I also added a Cast button (currently wired to a dummy screen). I'm not an Android developer by profession — this was mostly for fun and based on my personal design preferences — but I wanted to ask if you'd be open to including this in the main repo.

Details

Redesigned the Now Playing screen layout to resemble YouTube Music — cleaner layout, repositioned controls, more modern styling.

Added a Cast button icon in the top-right corner of the screen.

Currently, the button opens a placeholder (dummy) screen — no casting functionality added yet.

I made this change purely on the UI side (no backend/audio changes involved).

Motivation

I personally prefer the visual style of YouTube Music and wanted to bring a similar aesthetic to this app. If you're interested in this direction, I’d love to contribute it properly via a pull request.

Access Note

I wasn’t able to push my changes due to access permissions. But I can:

Share the code directly

Fork the repo and send a pull request if you give the go-ahead

Would you be open to reviewing this contribution?

Thanks!

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