expectingtofly wrote: 
> I've been having a look at supporting multiple BBC Accounts.  Ie the
> ability to add multiple accounts in settings, then associate different
> accounts with different players.
> The whole method of managing credentials and sessions needs an overhaul
> to support it, so its quite a bit work.  This has been a requested
> feature for quite a while.
> 
> I've started doing the ground work, but now I look at it, I'm not sure
> it works at all as a concept.
> 
> I know Spotty supports multiple accounts.  I've never seen the multiple
> accounts in action .   How does it work on that? 
> What happens on the controllers (e.g. Material Skin), when you are
> browsing within the spotty app with one player selected,  then you
> switch to another player that is associated with a different account. 
> It must be very confusing as the menu wouldn't change when you swap
> players, but would be completely invalidated (or it would be on BBC
> Sounds)? 
> 
> Or does it not matter in practise that its confusing, as you only listen
> to one player at a time, and users get used to checking what account is
> currently selected on the player?

Thanks for looking at this. Would it not make more sense to associate an
individuals account with an individuals device that they use for
Material rather that a player than can be used my multiple individuals?
Could Material store local settings on the device they have their
version of Material running on? (smartphone [apk]/tablet
[apk]/laptop/PC).


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