AudioDementia - music streaming android application

Client app for this server.
The coolest part of this whole app are definitely these logos created by my friend @ChrisNotFound:

Contents

• Description
• Features
• Screenshots
• Permissions
• Dependencies
• Future Improvements

Description

This application provides user interface and communicates with server's API to search and stream music from database across the network.

Target platform: Android 9; Minimal: Android 6.0

Features

• Search database for songs, albums and artists;
• Stream music from remote server;
• Create custom playlists.

Screenshots

Registration and login forms:

Searching for songs, albums and artists:

Music player fragment and navigation menu:

Permissions

List of permissions required by this application to fully function.

• INTERNET is needed for network communications with server;
• READ/WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE for caching;
• READ_PHONE_STATE grants access to phone state to control playback volume in case of ongoing phone calls;
• WAKE_LOCK is required by MediaPlayer to keep playing when device is locked;
• MEDIA_CONTENT_CONTROL used to control playback volume dependent on sounds from other applications.

Dependencies

• Greenrobot EventBus handles significant part of background work in this app, primarily used for networking;
• Picasso helps to asynchronously download and display album covers;
• Gson is used to serialize and deserialize JSON data which comes from server;
• and Mini Equalizer by Claucookie to display this cool little equalizer animation when music is being played.

Future Improvements

• Possibility to delete songs from playlists would be nice;
• Fully implement transport controls with MediaSession;
• Check refresh token functionality.