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About Media Bar

Media Bar (beta) doubles up your system's status bar as a media playback controller and progress indicator!

Whether you're listening to a podcast/music while browsing/gaming/multitasking or watching videos, you can now not only see the progress of the media through a thin bar at the top/bottom of your status bar but can also scrub through the media by swiping left/right on the status bar.

You can now quickly jump to a specific segment or forward/backward in steps of your song/podcast/video. Watching a long movie/podcast? Media Bar can be color coded to tell you the progress of the playback. Example:- Green Media Bar till 75% of the podcast, and it turns red till 100%.

Media Bar also has 3 invisible buttons that can be assigned to perform specific actions upon single tap, double tap and long press. The buttons touch regions can be customized as well.

Available actions/playback controls for Media Bar:

✓ Play/Pause
✓ Backward
✓ Forward
✓ Jump Backward by 'X' seconds
✓ Jump Forward by 'X' seconds
✓ Launch App

Media Bar features:

✓ The 3 invisible button regions can be adjusted.
✓ Media Bar can be configured to be as thin as 1 pixel.
✓ Media Bar can be located either top or bottom of the Status Bar.
✓ Media Bar's background can be opaque or transparent.
✓ Media Bar's origin can be configured to be left/center/right.
✓ Media Bar can auto hide on full screen Apps.
✓ Media Bar can be color coded with various color configurations available.

Media Bar color coded:

✓ Solid - Media Bar will always display in a single(any) color of your choice.
✓ Dynamic - Media Bar can change colors according to either the App which is playing the media or based on the album art of the media.
✓ Segments - Whole of Media Bar will change to a specific color based on progress of media.
✓ Merged Segment - Media Bar will display all the segments of color you've assigned while making the progress.
✓ Gradient Segment - Whole of Media Bar will gracefully change its color as it progresses from one segment of the media playing to another.
✓ Gradient - Media Bar will display a gradient of color as it progresses through the media.

Starting up Instructions:
* Click the top right toggle to go to Accessibility Settings, find and turn on Media Bar (you may have to look for it inside 'Downloaded Services')
* Enabling the Accessibility Service should open 'Notification Access' settings, allow Media Bar access. In case 'Notification Access' settings doesn't open automatically on your phone, please find it in System settings.
* Both the Accessibility Service and Notification Access needs to be always on for Media Bar to work.

Accessibility Service Requirement:
Android requires Energy Bar to run as an Accessibility Service, to be able to display on Lock Screen. It does not read/monitor any data, whatsoever. This is especially useful for people who have disability to read numbers and work better with visual data.

No charging animation? Solution for Samsung devices
Settings > Accessibility > Visibility enhancements > Remove Animations > uncheck if it's checked.

What’s new

Version MB_2.8_BETA · Updated September 16, 2025

* Support for Android 16!

User reviews

SP Aryan Biswal
SP Aryan Biswal
Fantastic App! I wish to see more in future :)
Patrick McCoy
Patrick McCoy
Great app, works great. Love the dynamic option that colors the bar based off the app icon.
Raoul Moes
Raoul Moes
Great app, works smoothly. I'd love more options to pay contribution though since it won't accept my currency and IDEAL doesn't work.
Saturn2k
Saturn2k
Works perfectly thanks for ur hard work
Krishna Sagar
Krishna Sagar
10/10 didn't know I needed this!
Chris Attard
Chris Attard
Great app. Need option to move line edge offset by pixels.

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