For the macOS version of Rigelian I wanted to move the list of players into the main menu. Because those are detected on the fly (and players can come and go) this requires that the menu can be updated dynamically. Turns out this is possible through builder.system.setNeedsRebuild(). The following code snippet from my AppDelegate shows…
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Trouble with armv7 support
Rigelian supports iOS 10 and above, meaning it can run on some 32-bit devices (iPhone 5 & 5c, iPad 4th generation). For that in the build settings you need to target both armv7 and arm64. Unfortunately with the default build settings, the app will crash on these older devices if loaded through the AppStore. When…
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Rigelian goes Mac
I just submitted v1.0 of Rigelian for Mac for App Store review. In the last couple of days I finished the main changes needed for this MVP. The most important open topic was sharing a single Rigelian subscription across 2 platforms (iOS and Mac). With Xcode 11.4 this is finally made possible, unfortunately this version…
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Dynamic type across the board
In preparation of the Catalyst version of Rigelian I have been increasing the font-sizes on most views, and using dynamic type on almost all views. An added bonus is that this will take into account the system wide font size setting that a user has chosen, thereby making the app more usable for those with…
In some of the recent updates of Rigelian there have been bugs that really should have been caught before releasing, but slipped through because of a lack of automated tests. Therefor I revisited the test strategy. In the past I created some ui-tests, but they were relying on a local mpd player that was started…
The next version of Rigelian integrates with last.fm to bring biographies and similar artists to the artist view. Coming soon to the App Store.
The upcoming release of Rigelian will focus on the artist view: a more image based view, improved handling of artist images and the addition of artist biographies and similar artists. Biographies and similar artists will be retrieved from last.fm, which offers an api for this. To abstract the networking part I created a new package…
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CI/CD with Bitrise
To make the development process more reliable, I added 4 of the open-source libraries on my GitHub account to Bitrise. For small developers they offer a free service to have automated build pipelines for different platforms, including the Apple ecosystem. Every commit will now trigger the build pipeline including running the test set (if present,…
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Rigelian 2.0 is in the mail
I just completed the last bits-and-pieces and posted the new 2.0 version of Rigelian to the AppStore and into the review and approval process. When I started the development of Rigelian over 2 years ago, I had a couple of things in mind. The main goal was to create the best remote control for mpd-based…
It’s 2020 and we’re back on extending Rigelian with support for Kodi. Added recently are the ‘play random album’ and ‘play random songs’ functions. Turns out that adding 100 songs in one command is very slow on Kodi, so I had to limit that to 20 songs to keep the performance acceptable. Also the sortation…