Alpha testing: iOS app
Some of the most common feedback we receive is around iOS. Typically we bashfully admit we don't have an iOS app, and point them to a Subsonic compatible app. Sometimes this gets adopted, sometimes not and we lose a potential listener.
So it's been on our roadmap for a while to fix this.
I'm pleased to announce that we have started work on our official iOS app, and we have a first build for you to start testing!
As ever, we're taking an incremental approach to development, driving it by feedback and bug reports. We also wanted to get something useful out there and in your hands (literally!). Some listeners only use storage browsing and so might find this valuable!
This first alpha only allows you to log in, browse your connected storage accounts and play tracks. It sounds minimal, and is, but we're hoping to add more functionality as time passes.
There's a wider goal here. Our long term vision is to bring the new iOS app up to feature parity with the Android one, and then shift the Android one to the same codebase. This is possible because the underlying technology for the new app supports both platforms (and others). For the nerds: we're using Kotlin Multiplatform (often abbreviated as KMP). The advantage to Android users is a more modern UI and use of more modern audio components which brings extra features. The advantage to us is that there is just one codebase, and it's actively developed, unlike the codebase that the current app was originally based on.
Now we're looking for alpha testers to help us spot problems and guide development. If you'd like to be involved, please drop a comment here or send us an email to info@asti.ga asking to be included. We'll need the email address that you log into the iOS App Store with, so if it's not the same as your Astiga login you might have to send us an email.
The minimum supported iOS version is 17.2. Find more information about testing here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/cx7cEUKc . At the time of writing the build hasn't been approved, but hopefully this will change over the coming hours.