An ipod classic for iOS/Android, built with Flutter

Last update: Jan 3, 2023

Overview

About

Retro aims to bring back the iPod Classic experience to iOS and Android. I originally started working on it nearly 2 years ago and released it as a TestFlight beta (because Apple wouldn't allow it on the App Store) and have been maintaining it myself since.

Unfortunately Retro in its current state is too hard to maintain due to poor choices I made 2 years ago that hinders the app today. It's far too difficult to add new stuff to it without breaking other parts of the app, not to mention the number of existing issues that have gone unfixed for so long.

That said, I've decided that it would be best to restart from scratch, rely on fewer dependencies, and (hopefully) write cleaner + better code in the process 😅 . I've had a handful of requests from people in the past asking how they can help and I've always wanted to eventually open-source the app, but I believe now is the right time.

This version of Retro will eventually succeed the current build that's available on TestFlight.

Stack

Flutter/Dart
API: Spotify SDK, MusicKit

Setup

Download and install Flutter
Clone this repository
cd retro
flutter pub get && flutter run
That's it!

Note: If you want to develop on this, you're going to need a mac as well as an Apple Developer Account (paid or free)

Contributing

Firstly, I appreciate you for taking the time to contribute 😁

If you're fixing a bug, feel free to just submit a PR and specify what it is that you're fixing! If there's something that you believe should be changed, open an issue here or discuss it on the Discord before actually making said change.

Other than that, I don't really have any specific requirements.

TODO

This is a list of all the things that are left to complete (there's likely more that I can't think of atm). Feel free to add onto it.

Description	iOS	Android
Apple Music implementation	🚧	N/A
Spotify implementation	🚧	🚧
Play Music from files	🚧	🚧
Skins (Background)	✅	✅
Skins (Wheel)	🚧	🚧
iPod Animations	🚧	🚧
Games	🚧	🚧
iPod Themes	🚧	🚧
Configurable app icons	🚧	🚧
Clickwheel feedback	✅	✅
Exponential scrolling	✅	✅
Menu Layout	✅	✅
Music Player functions	🚧	🚧
Migrate to Android embedding v2	N/A	✅
Migrate to Flutter 3	✅	✅
Splash screen	🚧	🚧
Dynamic Menu Sizes	🚧	🚧
Responsive to all screens	🚧	🚧

Comments

Speed Scrolling

Currently when you pan on the wheel, you scroll at a constant speed. The speed in which you scroll should increase exponentially the longer you scroll
enhancement help wanted medium priority

opened by sakofchit 2
Changed Readme, tested for Flutter 3 compatibility and updated selection color

Tested the code with a new flutter 3 installation, everything works as expected. Some warnings about a redundant check that something isn't null, according to a quick google search changing anything isn't required

Updated readme to clarify that a Mac is required (and that a free developer account is enough)

Changed the selection colors to match those on an iPod by taking them from an old image found on Apples Website using archive.org

opened by fritzlb 2
Playlists

Alphabetical order of playlists (mine are in the order they are created). Tracks within a playlist are in alphabetical order, not in the Apple music app and iTunes playlist order.

opened by Bermudagirl52 1
Shuffling

On the old Retro app, I implemented Shuffling by simply playing a random song from the user's library when the user tapped on the fast forward icon. I wasn't keeping track of songs the user had already played so there was no way to go back lol

So for this to work, the simplest approach would be to create a temporary song list/playlist upon tapping on the 'shuffle' button that has the id of each random song that's added to it in the order that they are played.
medium priority

opened by sakofchit 1
[WIP] Spotify Implementation

Decided that each music service implementation should have its own separate issue to keep track of them better.

We're using this package btw: https://github.com/brim-borium/spotify_sdk

#14

opened by sakofchit 2
App icon to match theme

Had this in the other version of Retro and it probably wouldn't hurt to add it in here as well

This plugin can assist with it: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_dynamic_icon
enhancement

opened by sakofchit 0
Coverflow

Should display album covers and allow users to select songs through them. This obv won't work until we implement some sort of music functionality first
enhancement help wanted medium priority

opened by sakofchit 2
Device Themes

The ability for users to switch between the different iPod Classic generation themes (1-7).

A nice to have would also be the ability for them to upload their own skins/mix n' match themes.
help wanted medium priority

opened by sakofchit 0

Releases(alpha)

alpha(Nov 29, 2022)
Let me preface this by saying there's still a lot missing and quite a ways to go, but the core parts of the app have been rebuilt and I'm pretty happy with the progress thus far.

What works:

Spotify (hopefully)

Playlists are actually in the order as they appear in your library (as well as the songs in them)

Themes (this is an overstatement)

Exponential Scrolling! Thanks to @fritzlb

At the moment, the focus is only on Spotify and the integration for IOS is mostly complete. Android isn't too far off.

I'll have a new TestFlight out soon, but in the meantime I'll be pushing IPAs here. If you want to help test or contribute to the project (pls do) that'd be swell
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Retro.v0.0.1-alpha.1.zip(19.20 MB)