From the top of my head, you could use headphones with control buttons.
If you don't use headphones, maybe something like a Bluetooth media button could work: https://satechi.net/products/satechi-bluetooth-button-series/
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I would prefer it to be on the device but if that is not possible then I would look into Bluetooth media buttons. Though your link is not working for me.
Maybe a case with additional buttons?
https://www.ipitaka.com/products/pinbutton-phone-cases
Found that from googling. No idea how good/useful it is.
very interesting this could work if I can find it in Europe
I have edited it, it should work now.
You could remap some of the extra buttons that some phones have, but that probably wouldn't be enough buttons for you.
Thank you. I have tried that using the volume button to change songs but it was buggy sometimes it worked sometimes not.
On my Motorola a long press of volume up skips to next track. There's also some trick where your tap on the back of the phone and that's play / pause but I rarely use that.
Did you consider using some Button Mapper app to.remap what your buttons do? Rigged phones and sometimes gaming phones have at least one additional button so with some combination of double-clicks and long cicks, you could probably map phone to meet all your needs
I tried but it is very buggy
Sounds like a cool idea for a case. It could be a sleeve that covers ⅔ of the screen, and in that bottom ⅔ is the physical buttons. Could connect via usb-c. Would be great if the music app would be aware and just display in the top ⅓ while this sleeve case is on.
Yes that would be nice.
You can achieve this with apps like Next Track or Volumee and a regular Android phone. Or you can buy a phone with extra buttons, but the button mapping function depends on the manufacturer's Android skin, so the quality varies.