Show remaining time until sleep timer is hit about antennapod HOT 3 OPEN

We're not convinced about applying this change to the timer at the bottom, because it might seem that the episode became shorter. It's not easy to make clear (visually) that the remaining time is coming from the sleep timer rather than the episode (as usual). Either way, this should only affect users who have 'remaining time' enabled.

However, there's also a UX challenge, with an inconsistency:

• if the remaining episode time is less than the remaining sleep timer time, then would it would probably still display the remaining episode time
• in vice versa situation, it would display the remaining sleep timer time.

Also, what if you seek in the progress bar beyond the remaining time, then what is displayed?

We would suggest, instead, to have a timer indication on the player screen itself, where we could display remaining time. I.e. moving the sleep timer away from the top app bar.

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We have 2 options, like you said:

1. The sleep duration is lower than the episode length.
2. The sleep duration is bigger than the episode length.

In either case I think the user would like to see a visual confirmation that sleep timer is active and the remaining time until either.
a. the next episode is played
b. playback is paused.

So if i'm in case 1. and the episode is longer than the remaining sleep time I want to see the remaining time until playback is stopped. If you progress bar is moved and now you end up in scenario 2. then apply the logic for 2. I don't really care that the episode is 2h long if I'm only going to be listening to it for 5 more minutes.

If I'm in case 2. I would like to see the remaining time until the episode finishes, with visual confirmation that I have a sleep timer active. After the episode finishes the next one will play and then we decide again if we're in situation 1. or 2. If there's nothing else to play well, not an issue, user wanted a sleep timer after 15 minutes but he was on the last 2 minutes of the last podcast so we stopped earlier, not an issue, we would have stopped without the sleep timer anyway.

Speaking about my implementation now (#7247):
I wanted to force the remaining sleep time even if you haven't selected the option normally so its easier to tell that you currently have a sleep timer activated and how long you have left. It also provides a better visualization if you use shake to reset and want confirmation that it actually reset, because right now you don't have any confirmation that the timer reset.

The color also changes, similar to the way Google Podcasts does it (if I remember correctly the app also made the text bold if in sleep time). So the sleep timer behavior mimics Google Podcasts, in the sense that if you activate the sleep timer you see how long you have left until the timer elapses (if lower than the current episode remaining time).

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This issue has been mentioned on AntennaPod Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.antennapod.org/t/needs-decision-meeting-updates/4169/2

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