aniruddha-deb/jukebox

Android music player app with stunning visual effects

Jukebox

Android music player app

Jukebox is an app which plays music on your smartphone in a user-friendly manner. It is still currently a barebones work-in-project but it is envisioned in the future that jukebox will have a flat, easy to use UI with visual effects for the music being played.

Features

On startup, jukebox queries the files on the user's device and lists them in a listView

Upon clicking a song, it reads and displays the song's tag data and plays the song

It also displays a notification in the notification bar which, upon tapping, takes you to the PlayerActivity

Installation

Download the build.apk file and install on your android smartphone. After installation, run the app by tapping on it from your desktop.

Bugs

• The slider thumb in low-res phones (such as my samsung gt-i9060) is misplaced. This does not occur in hi-res phones (oneplus 2, moto x) and needs to be fixed.
• The close button has a bug which prevents relaunching of the activity.

TODOs

• Refactor the code and incorporate some flexibility in the UI designs.
• Improve the UI (cardView for the startup listSongsActivity etc)
• Start building databases and base user suggestions upon the data in the databases.

jukebox's Issues

MediaPlayer returns null from service

the MediaPlayer present in the service always returns null when being returned. This causes the slider to not get updated. High priority bug

App not closing properly when the close button is pressed (on notification)

The app does not behave properly when restarting after it has been closed using the notification close button. Issue probably deals with closing the activities and all other activities/fragments/services related to the app

slider thumb misplaced on some devices

The thumb of the progress slider is misplaced in some devices such as the samsung gt-i9060 . This does not occur in high-end devices like the OnePlus 2 .

Notification layout not behaving well on some devices

The notification layout does not behave well on devices like the Oneplus 2 and on others like the samsung gt-i9060, the background image does not take up all the available space. Needs immediate fixing as soon as I am done refactoring the code

Code needs refactoring as it is getting stagnated

my code has not been coded in keeping OO principles (most of the time) in mind. Hence, it has become stagnant and needs serious refactoring. This refactor consists of:

• Behavioural changes:
  • Assign duties to each activity/service and see if they are performing ONLY what they need to do. If not, create new activities/services which perform the required task
  • Make the methods more efficient and convert most of the inline methods used in the activities into methods stored in Java classes in the package tools
• Data changes
  • Streamline the song object by encapsulating the song-related properties such as title, artist etc into a new object called songData
  • Make databases for the creation, registry and storage of songs and stop operating out of the songs list in Constants class.

Bug on xhdpi+ devices

the application breaks down on xhdpi+ devices as their layout.xml file has not been updated to include the mediaController. top-priority bug to be fixed ASAP