Application do not use full screen for Xiaomi A2 lite phone

[redxml]

Plan

Premium

Country

 Poland

Device

Xiaomi mi a2 lite

Operating System

8.1.0

My Question or Issue

 On my brand new phone Spotify don't use full screen. There is a black bar above the play Button. Please look at attached screenshot. 

[Katerina]

Hey everyone!

Thanks for reporting this. We've passed the info to our tech team and they're looking into this.

If you're experiencing this issue, make sure to click +VOTE and keep an eye here for any updates 🙂

If you haven't already, please make sure to try reinstalling the app and if that doesn't help, to leave a comment with the following details:

• Device
• Device OS
• Spotify version

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[davidhasnexus]

Hey, I have the same problem.

Xiaomi MI A2 Lite

Android 8.1.0 (september)

Spotify: 8.4.72.845 armV7

Clearly, the app doesn`t fully support 19:9 screen.

[Jemi]

Hey @davidhasnexus,

Could you reinstall the app? There should be a newer version out. 

Let us know if it doesn't work, and the version you got.

Thanks!

[juliano_souza17]

Hello @Jemi

As stated before, I also have the same problem and I have installed the new version.

For me it still doesn't work.

App version: 8.4.74.463 armV7

Android version: 8.1.0 - September patch

[redxml]

I can only agree with previous users. Defect still occurs

Tested on:

- version 8.4.74.463 armV7

- android 8.1.0 (September security patch installed)

I made full data wipe before instalation of new version 

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[brainercost]

I'm having the same problem with the Motorola Moto G6...

• Device : Moto G6
• Device OS: Android 8.0
• Spotify version: 8.4.75.670 armV7

[ClovisCheminot]

Hello @Jemi @Peter @redxml,

This problem is very easy to solve, as mentionned here:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Android-Optimize-the-Spotify-app-for-long-screens-such-a...

Spotify developpers just have to add this line of code in  the <application> tag of the [AndroidManifest.xml] file:

<meta-data android:name="android.max_aspect" android:value="2.1" />

You just have to decompile the APK, add or replace this line of code and recompile the APK to fix the problem manually).

I've done this fix on the latest version and it works on my A2 Lite (btw, this works for other devices too).

You can get the fixed APK HERE . Just uninstall the spotify app you already have and install this new APK to fix the problem.

Hope it will help you,

Clovis Cheminot

[forastero]

Tutorial to remove black bars : pastebin.com/JMeV2efn

I'm sorry I have to give u a link to another website but spotify wont let me comment here for some stupid error, it works here is a screenshot taken by my Mi A2 Lite https://goo.gl/xyWY6a

[juliano_souza17]

Thank you @ClovisCheminot  and @forastero for the solutions provided. This works nicely.

I assume that I'll probably have to manually update the Spotify app everytime a new version is released since this is a manual intervention in the AndroidManifest file, right?

Could spotify staff provide this fix on the app's actual GA? @Jemi @Peter @redxml

[forastero]

@juliano_souza17 

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I assume that I'll probably have to manually update the Spotify app everytime a new version is released since this is a manual intervention in the AndroidManifest file, right?

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I have no idea, after next update i'll tell here if it's a permanent fix or not but spotify could have fixed this a looooong time ago but they just dont fix it and i dont think they are going to fix it any time soon