History:Mobile Applications

GSoC Projects

Two of the Google Summer of Code projects for 2010 involve creating MusicBrainz mobile applications. The iPhone and Android applications will be created by jensl and jdamcd respectively.

This page is intended to explain the ideas behind the projects so that we can get some community feedback. Hopefully this will lead to a well defined structure and feature set by the start date on 24th May.

Feature List

1. Text search for artists releases and more
2. Barcode search for releases
3. Add barcodes not already stored in MusicBrainz
4. Rate and tag
   1. Artists
   2. Releases
5. Add releases to user collection
6. Display user collection

Activities flow chart

Barcode scan flow chart

User Interface

The UI design for both applications will be based on the following Android style mock-up/workflows. The intention is to have applications with similar feel but with the benefit of native platform user interfaces.

• Unregistered users
  • Search
  • Scan barcode
• Registered users
  • Log in
  • User view
  • Add barcode

Some notable deviations from those original mock-ups have already been identified:

• Collections feature
• Separate space for tags (resolving potential layout issues with many/long tags)