Last devlog I had a very basic frontend and that was basically it. Since then I built almost everything and it actually feels like a real OS now.

The biggest thing I worked on was the music player. I built it to look like a real music player with a dark background, big album art, pink progress bar, white play button. You can browse all 7 albums, click to see every song inside, and tap any song to play it. I added in all 111 songs from Yours Truly to Eternal Sunshine in the right order.

The hardest part was the wallpaper choices. I wanted real album photos so I had to embed them directly into the HTML so the file works on its own without needing extra files. I also needed to find the wide version of each album so it could fit on the screen; all her album covers are originally square. For some of the photos, I couldn’t find the wise version, so I had to manually import the photos into a photo editor and fill in the backgrounds. Every time I added a photo the file went over 2MB. Took a while to get the quality high but at the same time keep the file size reasonable.

Other stuff I added:
Calendar with monthly and yearly view, you can add events to any date
Journal and Notes combined into one app with tabs
Stopwatch and Timer that flashes red in the last 5 seconds and beeps when done
A paint app where you can draw and save as PNG
Welcome screen with a guide that walks you through the whole OS
A to-do list!
A fun little fortune cookie app which you can crack (press on), revealing a fortune cookie message related to Ariana Grande
Browser that has Ariana Grande’s socials pinned to the top
Added a notification bell that keeps you updated on album drops, tours, etc etc
Weather application which is based on user’s location
All 4 corners of every window can now be dragged to resize
Added customizable features such as album cover wallpapers, themes, fonts, changing font size, etc etc

What I’m going to be doing next:
Fixing up bugs and any issues
Adding more details or effects to the home screen to give it more oomph
Maybe: adding more wallpaper choices (?)

Really happy with what I have and what else I’ll accomplish!! So excited to show this to my sister (I’ll let you all know what she thinks in my next devpost…coming soon!!) :))