[mb-devel] MusicBrainz iOS App as GSoC 2015 project

[Antoniogra7]

Hey everyone, I'm Antonio Granados, a Software Engineering student in the
University of Malaga, Spain.

I plan to participate in this year Google Summer of Code and after looking
through the available organizations I got interested in this one since I'm
also a music lover and musician wannabe. The thing is, there are a few GSoC
participants that are already interested in the project listed as proposed
ideas in MusicBrainz's GSoC page so I decided to bring my own one.
After researching a little bit I've noticed that there is no MusicBrainz app
for iOS, even though there is an Android one and, since I have some
experience and interest in iOS development, I thought I could do it myself.
I'd appreciate if you let me know your opinion about this project before I
propose it through the GSoC page.

Thanks.



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[Michael Wiencek]

Hey,

We had students working on an iOS app in 2010 and 2012, but it wasn't
completed in either case. See
https://github.com/demosdemon/MB-iPhone-App

If you're interested in continuing development on that, I'd suggest
getting it running and then writing up a proposal on what still needs
work (I honestly have no idea what the state of it is), with the goal
of getting it into the app store.

Michael

Post by Antoniogra7
Hey everyone, I'm Antonio Granados, a Software Engineering student in the
University of Malaga, Spain.
I plan to participate in this year Google Summer of Code and after looking
through the available organizations I got interested in this one since I'm
also a music lover and musician wannabe. The thing is, there are a few GSoC
participants that are already interested in the project listed as proposed
ideas in MusicBrainz's GSoC page so I decided to bring my own one.
After researching a little bit I've noticed that there is no MusicBrainz app
for iOS, even though there is an Android one and, since I have some
experience and interest in iOS development, I thought I could do it myself.
I'd appreciate if you let me know your opinion about this project before I
propose it through the GSoC page.
Thanks.
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[Antoniogra7]

Thanks for answering bitmap,

I've taken a look at the code and honestly, I think it would be better to
write a new app from scratch. iOS has changed a lot in the last couple of
years and I believe adapting that code to the new standards would take more
work than starting over due to the frameworks it uses that are no longer in
development (Three20) and doesn't work in recent iOS versions or aren't
necessary thanks to new APIs.

The goal is to end up with an iOS app as capable as the Android app, with
support for the new iOS devices and designs paradigms. I believe the time
frame is adequate for this project and that I could end up with a working
iOS app by the time it ends.

I'm preparing the proposal and will post about it here before sending it to
GSoC.

Antonio.



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