brahmkshatriya/echo
Echo
Echo is a mobile music player designed for playing local audio files on mobile devices through a dedicated user interface. It functions as a local media indexer that scans and catalogs offline music files from device storage to build a searchable library.
The application uses a plugin-based architecture to extend functionality without modifying the core code. This system allows for dynamic plugin loading and runtime module injection from installed packages to add capabilities such as lyrics and music tracking.
The project incorporates a dynamic asset resolver to map external plugin resources to internal paths for rendering media and metadata. It also employs a centralized state-driven UI to synchronize the user interface with the playback engine.
Features
- Local Music Players - Provides a music player application designed to play audio files stored locally on the device.
- Local Filesystem Indexers - Scans local disks to build searchable catalogs of offline music file metadata.
- Music Playback - Enables music playback from personal offline libraries on a mobile device.
- Runtime Plugin Module Injectors - Loads external modules at runtime to inject new features like lyrics and tracking without modifying core code.
- Plugin Extenders - Allows loading custom external libraries at runtime to augment core application functionality via plugins.
- Local Media Indexing - Scans local directories to build searchable databases based on media metadata tags.
- Decoupled Architectures - Employs a decoupled architecture to isolate core playback logic from optional plugin-based feature sets.
- Plugin-Based Architectures - Uses an architecture that allows extending core functionality by loading external plugins at runtime.
- Plugin Package Discovery - Uses installed software packages as a source for plugins to decouple feature development from the core engine.
- Plugin Packaging - Implements conventions for packaging modular extensions as distributable packages for runtime loading.
- Centralized State Containers - Utilizes a centralized state container as the single source of truth to synchronize the UI with the playback engine.
- State-Driven UI Rendering - Automatically updates the user interface based on changes in the underlying playback engine state.
- Music Metadata Integration - Integrates music-specific metadata such as lyrics and tracking from external sources via plugins.
- Android Streaming Apps - Extension-based online and offline music player for Android.
