• AudioPlaybackPanel's seek bar is now a squiggly line instead of a plain Slider: the played portion is drawn as a wavy line that tapers to flat at both ends, and the remaining portion as a straight line, joined by a round thumb. Tap or drag it to seek, same as before.
• AudioPlaybackPanel's subtitle now shows the file size and duration once the audio loads (e.g. 3.4 MB · 01:24), and a new onMetadataLoaded callback exposes both values programmatically (null file size for remote URLs). This applies wherever AudioPlaybackPanel is used, including the result panel embedded in AudioRecorderWidget.

• RecordingConfig's default format is now RecordingFormat.aacM4a instead of RecordingFormat.wav, for smaller recordings out of the box.
• RecordingConfig.sampleRate is now nullable (int?, default null). When left unset, it resolves per format via the new RecordingFormat.defaultSampleRate: 44100 Hz for aacM4a and 16000 Hz for wav.
• Breaking: RecordingConfig.sampleRate's type changed from int to int?, and the default format changed as described above.

• AudioPlaybackPanel now accepts a remote http/https URL in addition to a local file path. Pass any URL to filePath and the player streams it directly via just_audio's setUrl — no local download step required.
• Trim controls are automatically hidden for remote URLs (trimming requires a local WAV file and would not be applicable).

• Improved pubspec description for better pub.dev search visibility.
• Added screenshots entries to pubspec.yaml for pub.dev gallery rendering.
• Added ios/Pods/ and ios/.symlinks/ to the example .gitignore.

• Updated repository URL.

Initial release.

• AudioRecorderWidget: drop-in, themeable recorder UI with live waveform, elapsed-time display, status pill, and animated record button.
• RecorderFeatures: recording, playback, trimming, and upload are each individually toggleable per widget instance, with presets (all, recordOnly, recordAndTrim, playbackOnly).
• AudioPlaybackPanel: standalone playback + WAV trim panel for any audio file path.
• AudioRecorderController: headless recording API (start/pause/resume/stop, amplitude stream, call-interruption stream) for custom UIs.
• RecordingConfig: configurable format (WAV / AAC .m4a), sample rate, bit rate, channels, output directory and file name, foreground-service notification (title/text), and auto-pause-on-call.
• AudioRecorderTheme: full color theming with AudioRecorderTheme.fromColorScheme to match the host app's Material theme.
• AudioTrimService: pure-Dart PCM WAV trimming.
• Android: foreground-service recording with persistent notification and telephony-based auto-pause/resume around phone calls.
• iOS: background recording via the audio background mode and auto-pause on audio-session interruptions.