Road_Map.md

Development Plan (or Road Map?) & TO-DO list

Major Development Plan

Independent Database by Jetpack Room

Use AndroidX Room to build an audio database, which:

• has proper Song-Album-Artist Relationship (one-many & many-many) with artistName spited (parse ';', '&', '/', '', ',').

• has independent Genre store, which united Genre and Style fields with spited (parse ';', '&', '/', '', ',').

• has multiple data source (Android MediaStore & File System JAudioTagger Parse).

• can be refreshed manually.

• can be update automatically.

• all queries are in background.

• search enhanced.

This part is currently work-in-progress. See branch room or database

Native player

Integrate with native decoder like ffmpeg or Symphonia.

• Test for Cross Compile

• Player support in JVM side.

• Glue and logical code in Native side.

• Reproducible Builds

Refactor Main Player UI

This is for simplifying player fragments and related fragments, including:

• Simplifying layout

• reduce fragments complexity

• fully MVVM architecture or MVI architecture

Redesign AlbumDetail and ArtistDetail activities

Redesign these to have a better appearance and to make maintenance easier.

Minor Development Plan

Small development plans.

• Refactor MusicPlaybackQueueStore with QueueManager

• Play from content uri

• Improve App Intro (WIP🚧)

• Enhance Playlist Detail: support search, Better way to modify , handle intent of open (playlist) file

• improve SlidingMusicBar

• Support some Android's StatusBar lyrics, such as FlyMe / EvolutionX

Canceled Development Plan

They may not be implemented as planned.

• Correctly Handling Android 11+ File Permission

• Refactor so-called Theme Engine