Request: Android app (looking for volunteers) about openwhyd

[adrienjoly]

News: following the publishing of my article "Don’t build a back-end for your Android music app 🎧", two Android app developers are considering to integrate Openwhyd's back-end!

• Ravi Shanker Manchi (discussing by email)
• and Akash Bisariya: https://medium.com/@bigakash/hi-adrien-a0786937403f

[akshaysolanki941]

Hi, I would like to volunteer for this.

[amorenojimenez]

I'm beginning this small application based in ionic in case someone can give me a hand :)

https://github.com/amorenojimenez/openwhyd-mobile

[adrienjoly]

Thanks for reaching out, Akshay! I just replied to your email, can't wait to chat with you!

[adrienjoly]

ping @bhugot

[adrienjoly]

Reminder: until we setup something like OAuth, it's still possible to fetch playlists from any domain, using our public JSON API.

[adrienjoly]

The Openwhyd Music Lover community has spoken:

The most wanted use cases on Android are:

1. Play tracks that I posted (my profile and playlists), or my stream, or hot tracks
2. a web app that works properly and doesn't stop playing

[adrienjoly]

Update: In order to call for developers, I just posted this announcement on openwhyd.org:

[adrienjoly]

Here's another framework that could potentially be used to create a native mobile app in JavaScript: https://nativescript.org/

[adrienjoly]

Finding: Stretto (https://next.kaiserapps.com/) – an alternative to Openwhyd that can also play Youtube and SoundCloud tracks – has an open-source mobile app for Android: https://github.com/benkaiser/stretto-mobile-next/.

=> Suggested next steps:

1. test this app to make sure it can still play youtube and soundcloud tracks
2. fork it to load tracks from an openwhyd profile

EDIT, important note: the playback of tracks seems to go through a "streamer" server that convert tracks to mp3.

[adrienjoly]

Other idea: build a bridge between openwhyd's backend and existing mobile apps that support open protocols

e.g. https://funkwhale.audio/fr_FR/apps (docs: https://docs.funkwhale.audio/ + https://docs.funkwhale.audio/users/apps.html#enabling-subsonic-on-your-funkwhale-account)

[adrienjoly]

FYI, Alex has implemented an Android app for Openwhyd: https://github.com/alexllanas/open-audio