Aligning Lock Screen and Mini Player to a Single Playback State
Resolved an inconsistency where the lock screen remote control, mini player, and Reels each referenced separate playback states, consolidating them under a single source of truth.
The lock screen remote control, mini player, and Reels audio represent a single playback experience to the user, but internally each component was referencing its own playback state. A track paused from one interface could still appear as playing in another — an inconsistency that does not surface in feature specifications but directly degrades playback reliability.
This work aligned the lock screen control and mini player to reference a shared state source. The ordering of audio session and track loading during Reels entry and exit was corrected to eliminate sequencing gaps, and the attachment points for the effects chain (spatial audio, reverb) were defined ahead of full implementation.
Splash and onboarding screens were also refined under the same standards. The objective was to ensure that any control surface — regardless of which screen the user is on — reflects and affects a single, consistent playback state.