It might not be ready for all users but i am using it now since 8 months daily.
here is a how-to that should help you to overcome possible limitations and be happy with the current stage
Tidalplayer
working features:
it is possible to install, login, search and play music, create locally stored playlists
not implemented:
managing playlists, play videos, offline mode
initial start
on first startup you will be lead to settings page
click on login
login should lead you to tidal page where you can enter e-mail / pwd
on succuess you get guided to link you device page
click on continue leads you back to app
(either settings page or personal page)
after login, you might see a crippled Personal page
navigate to settings
- disable new homescreen
- select add to playlist & play as default play action
restart the application
ALLWAYS after start wait untill all the loading is finished, means all the turning circles goes away
this can take 30 seconds.
usage
personal page
similar to home page in android tidal player
you can customize the shown sections via settings page
(e.g. i do not show faw tracks and pop playlists)
each section e.g. Top Artists is clickable and toggles a filter field to simplify navigation to your fav artists, albums etc.
search
search page allows you to search tidal
search is rather slow, again wait until all data was received and turning circles do disappear
remark: currently search breaks after 3/4 search requests. you can recognize this when no turning wheel is shown after click on search
currently only restart of app does solve this issue.
i use search only to find new stuff and then use favorite (the star icon on album / artist / playlist) to add this to my personal page
personal page get only loaded on start, means marking e.g. artist as favorite will be shown on next app start
playlist
shows the current playlist
when ever you click play (e.g. play artist, play album) the songs are added to the playlist.
(+) does add songs to playlist
(>) play replaces the content of playlist
both buttons (on album and artist page) should give you a haptic feedback
playlist can be stored, via pull down menue: saved playlist and also loaded from there
player
can be shown via pull down menu: show player
clicking on song name toggles the size of the player
next to (>) play button is the fav (*) button to mark songs as favs
known issues:
connection issue
there are multiple events that can cause player to stop, which are currently not handled:
a) every now and then tidal does change the URLs of songs
b) token expires and needs to be refreshed
c) network connection switches
in all cases you can navigate within the playlist, but the player does not react on the changed song.
player seems to get out of sync with playlist index.
playing, forward buttons do now work.
there are two options to get tidal-player work again:
-
do some navigation on personal page until you see a notification that login failed.
then navigate to settings page and click on re-init session.
a notification that login was successful should be shown and turning circles should indicate a re-init of the player.
click on e.g. song 1 in your playlist, if player gets updated you are ready to go. -
restart player
failure during login
in case you do not get the login page but sfos page loaded there are two possible root causes
- tidal api has changed, this is not recoverable, you will need to wait for an app update.
this happened once in the last 8 months
- not sure if captive page is the correct term to use here, but it did happen in the past that the initial login would fail (re-authentication on start works stable) and either you cant see the page to enter pwd, or to connect device.
in such cases, only reboot of device does help
my working configuration:
‘old’ homescreen
add to playlist and play
low audio quality
auto load last playlist
fav tracks on home disabled
stay logged in activated
the link works on my laptop but not in sfos browser 
Thanks a lot, one less Android app!
