I learned I was nowhere near done at all. I basically need to switch the UI library to be compatible with the system I’m using, and I still have to write the clients for the server. I only have one app that’s halfway done, and that’s the music client. I still have a lot to do, along with that, Google is going to discontinue firebase spark for no reason except that anytime they realize that users like an app, they either discontinue it or make it worse with ads

Ididntget much done because my laptop was broken and I didn’t have a way to test my apps in firebase studio but i a tried to add an authentication system that uses the client API to automatically authenticate users

So I kind of broke my only laptop but it’s all chill because I have an iPad.

I started working on the music client (there are 4) and I decided to go with a unconventional architecture for this one this time. Instead of having the now playing screen link with the app like a normal person, I have a API to handle it. I have multiple endpoints to play/pause/otherwise control music and the API can provide the song progress and name. As you can see, the UI is quite ugly. I’ll have to start theming the screens today

I created a basic client to test out the API with, I don’t mean for it to ship with this client. I’m just doing it. I’ve decided on a file numbering system, where each file gets its own number. if a file is deleted, it’s number is kept and marked as deleted until a file with the same metadata returns. I got some errors when I was going to screenshot my code, but since I don’t work on sundays, I can’t fix it until monday. I got rid of the splash screen because I realized people don’t want to see it.

I’m creating a free plex alternative.

I’ve always wanted to get into self hosting and stuff, and now that stardance is starting, now is my chance to create my app and ditch streaming like I’ve wanted to do.

I’m thinking like one app can be photos, another for videos, one for music, and one for storage. it sounds like a good idea in theory but it might be hard to implement.

Anyway, with flavortown I had good project ideas but the implementation and design weren’t all there, so this time around I’m going to focus only on that. This will likely be my only project this time around so I’m going to make it my best one.

I haven’t got much done, because I’ve been studying topics and stuff but here I have the setup screen. I’m taking inspiration from Google’s material design 3 for the aesthetic.

I designed a splash screen for my app’s server counterpart