🎵 INTRODUCING Direct Music Player

Inuwa Ibrahim
3 min readAug 2, 2021

Virtually all mobile user listen to music, with their favourite music player - be it — the default players (from manufacturers) or the one downloaded from play store.

There are tons of music player on play store, not gonna lie, building another one might seem unnecessary.

While there are lots of music player out there, I feel like most:

  • Use libraries, which may not be up to date with current recommended standard
  • Are bloated with lots of unnecessary/unused features
  • Contains lots of annoying ADS 😠

Taking the above points into consideration, I decided to build a music player — Direct Music Player

- Using all the fancy new stuffs from Android
- With a very simple and modern UI — Without useless features
- NO ADS and Absolutely free.

👋 SAY HELLO TO DIRECT MUSIC PLAYER

Ladies and Gentlemen. 😏.
Today, I am introducing Direct Music Player to the world — A very simple, modern and beautiful music player for android.

Direct Music Player — Apps on Google Play

Here’s a quick look and feel of the application:

BUILT WITH

Direct Music Player is written entirely in Kotlin

FEATURES

  • Play song from your device
  • Add a song as favourite/like a song
  • Browse through artiste and play songs from them
  • Browse through album and play songs from the album
  • Search and play songs from your device
  • Create and store songs in a playlist
  • Dark and Light mode 🌗

LIBRARIES USED

ARCHITECTURE

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)

NOTE:
If you want to learn more about some of these libraries and architecture, I have written some comprehensive article about most of them:

ROOM
Save Data on Android Using Room Database and Data Store — Beginners Guide | by Inuwa Ibrahim | Jun, 2021 | ProAndroidDev

LIVEDATA AND FLOW
Flow/LiveData….What Are They? Best Use Case. (Lets Build a Login System) | by Inuwa Ibrahim | ProAndroidDev

MVVM ARCHITECTURE AND NAVIGATION COMPONENT
How I Built a Simple Currency Converter App — Using Recommended Android Pattern and Architecture | by Inuwa Ibrahim | The Startup | Medium

STILL TO COME (TODO)

  • Optimisation for small and larger screens and devices — Currently works great for 5.0' screen and above but not optimised for screens < 4' and tablet/large devices 😞

DOWNLOAD

You can download and test current release on Google Playstore:
Direct Music Player — Apps on Google Play

REQUEST/COLLABORATE/CONTRIBUTE

To be honest, this was supposed to be a hobby side project, but if you feel this has the potential to be up there with the best and wanna help out, feel free to reach out to me.
For features, requests or complains…
Send a mail:
directmusicplayer@gmail.com

CONTACT ME

https://linktr.ee/Ibrajix

Thanks for your time 👏

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