Kustom Beginner’s Guide – Part 4 – Music Controls

My music controls will have a look on the Kustom Material Music Komponent by +Sebastian Spindler since it covers everything you need. I will explain it part by part.

To get started

First you have to make sure that your Music Player supports the Android media service extension (source), otherwise it won't work with KLWP. Kustom also has to have notification access in Android settings.

Creating Music Controls

Most Music Controls consist of Play/Pause/Next/Previous buttons, cover art and a progress bar. All this is very easy to make in Kustom. When we have a look at kwerdenker's Komponent you can see that the background is the cover art, a bar contains the music controls and the artist and title info is stacked on top of this bar.

Cover Art

In the example Cover Art is added trough a bitmap and with advanced editing set to "$mi(cover)$" as the formula.

There is another way to add covert art which gives you more options. Add a shape and pick your desired form (square, circle, etc.). Then go to "FX" and change texture to bitmap and enter the Cover Art Formula through the advanced editor.