[Enhancement][Android Auto]: Ability to refresh the UI when internet connectivity is established

[armanckeser]

Sometimes when I open the app on Android Auto, I only see the "Downloads" section. I presume this is due to internet instability at the time of building the UI. From the code (I haven't written any applications in Kotlin or AA), I see that this UI happens when there are no items in the library.

My problem is that, I can't find a way to refresh this UI when I know I have internet. My best hope is to search for the audiobook, but the search also almost never works.

Is there a way to redraw the UI when using Android Auto (When I "turn off" the application and "turn on" again, the issue persists, I believe this is due to the app not actually turning off, but I couldn't find a way to force it)?

If not, could we add a refresh button to the UI to manually refresh the BrowseTree?

(PS: thanks for this app, it is one of my most used ones, and got me listening to so many books that otherwise I might not have)
Thanks!

Phone Model

Oneplus 9

Phone OS

Android Oxygen OS 13.1

Audiobookshelf App Version

0.9.79-beta

Installation Source

Play Store (I think? maybe F-droid)

[kymahi]

Kinda on this topic, it's worse since 0.9.78-beta. I downgraded to 0.9.77-beta due to the battery issue and the listening tab showed up every time. On both 78 and 79, the listening tab is now missing every time I plug in.

[ppoloskov]

I'm experiencing this as well. My Samsung S22 Ultra, Android 14, OneUI 6.1 didn't have this problem before 0.9.78-beta.
Also, I don't know if this is a connectivity issue since this happens indoors and outdoors.

[advplyr]

The update that was made is making many more API requests and so if you have a slow network connection it can be timing out or it may just take a while before the other sections show up.
We're going to have to make some changes with that update.

@armanckeser Can you update your issue with the app version, your phones android version and device/model for reference. We use Issue templates that ask for all this info but you selected blank when you opened this.

[armanckeser]

@advplyr That's on me (but also a bit on Github) sorry about that. I looked at the code directly and apparently when you choose a line in the code and press "Reference in a new issue" it brings up a blank issue bypassing the issue templates

[ppoloskov]

@advplyr thank you for the explanation. I think it's not speed but rather latency, but most likely timeout issue