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QuickPlay

A simple app to quickly use remote players

Features

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

Architecture

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]
}

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.

Lessons learned

Basic Android architecture knowledge
Network and asynchronous coding
Library patching

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