UI for Music Player Daemon

I am in a desperate need to control my MPD server from iPad and iPhone. This project is my attempt to write such UI. When at it, I plan to make the UI portable - e.g. run it on desktop, Android, iOS or as a server.

Don't get me wrong, MPDroid is great and works fine, but it just doesn't run on iOS devices, so I have to do something...

Building the project

Use Maven and JDK8:

mpdui$ export JAVA_HOME=/jdk1.8.0/
mpdui$ mvn clean install -DskipTests

Building for iOS

As one needs PR-61 which hasn't been accepted yet, there is a Git submodule with custom version of javampd library for RoboVM (the JVM for iOS). Build the project as described above and then:

mpdui$ mvn -f client-ios/ robovm:iphone-sim
mpdui$ mvn -f client-ios/ robovm:ios-device

Deploying such application to iPad device is possible, but it works just a few days. As such I decided to try another approach...

Running as a server

Let's run the application on a server and display the UI in any browser. Thanks to Apache HTML/Java project it is just a matter of proper packaging (and a few fixes, hence a git submodule for html4j repository). Build the whole project as described above and then launch as:

mpdui$ mvn -f client -Pbrowser-presenter package exec:exec -Dexec.server.arg=server

The server starts listening on local port 6681. The same can be done from NetBeans IDE: