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# QuickPlay
## A simple app to quickly use remote players

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# Features

Easy to learn
Central management
(Theoretically) extensible / modular
Usable on Android 4.4+ (Tested on Marshmallow)
(Android only)

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# Architecture

```graphviz
digraph "Arch" {
layout=fdp
RP -> Player [style="dotted", dir="both"];
RP[label="Remote player"]
XML -> AppConfig -> PlayerConfig -> {Player Playables HTTP};
UI -> LayoutStrategies;
Person -> UI -> Playables -> Metadata
Metadata -> LayoutStrategies
HTTP[label="HTTP + INI"]
Person, RP, UI, XML, HTTP [shape=box]
}
```

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# Issues

Understanding Android ecosystem is hard
  - unintuitive naming
  - complex hierarchy of support libraries
  - I didn't find comphrehensive overview
  - many APIs are replaced
 
Quite a lot of boilerplate code (esp. UI)

Visual Studio not refreshing Resource files.

No sensible MPD client library.

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# Lessons learned

- Basic Android architecture knowledge
- Network and asynchronous coding
- Library patching