Published
Jan 22, 2016
Category
Mobile App
client
Skytone
Music Streaming App
Stream Music on your mobile device
The Challenge
The application should be created from scratch, with using a public web service API, it should follow GUI guidelines, meet reliability and robustness requirements, use internal MediaPlayer application, and connect to the embedded Voice Recognition system. The first challenge for our developer was to implement work with public API web server, then to organize a playback of streaming media via media player. One of the requirements was to encrypt all music and media data on sd-card storage.
02. Solution
A special library was created for all application screens to have a similar view of all elements, like list views, and to support day/night switching easily. Music stream downloading was organized as two separate threads, one for current track, second for the next one, to predict and pre-cache next media.
03. Perfect Result
The final product of the development is a fully-functional application for Asteroid devices. We have overviewed the original Android application and enriched it with the additional functionality. The main features of the application:
Multi users accounts management – to switch between users, store previous login, autologin on next application start
Heavy rotation section – to browse the most popular content for a user, their friends or the whole site
Charts section – to get the site-wide most popular items for a given type
New releases section – to view new albums released across a timeframe
Collection section – to view and play tracks or playlists to the current user’s collection
Playlists section – to view and manage users playlists
Search (with keeping search history) for artists, tracks, playlists
