Iphone App

[Nicola Lunghi]

Hi,

there's a way to contribute to fund the development of an iphone app?

I love opensonapp but some of my band members (and myself) have an ipad instead of an android device.

It would be possible to make this cross platform?

Thanks,

Nicola

[Nicola Lunghi]

Normally iphone users are pretty accustomed to pay for app so there's also that

At the moment we are using songbookpro but its horrible

[Gareth Evans]

Currently I am the only developer of this app, along with some very much appreciated contributors on GitHub (you know who you are!) and this is coded in my spare time (I'm a Science teacher by day, a musician at the weekend, a husband and father of two and a coder in my 'spare' time).

I originally started OpenSongApp as a project for myself to learn app coding and use my OpenSong library of songs that I had and was previously printing out to store in large binders.  When I started this project, I wasn't fixed on Android other than the fact I didn't have an Apple Mac and that meant I couldn't learn coding for that platform (you have to use iOS to get access to code for iOS).  Apple also charges an annual subscription fee to keep each of your apps on its store, whereas Android could be coded on any PC (I was using Linux at that point) and joining the Play Store as a developer only cost around £15 as a one off payment, regardless of how many apps I wanted to create.  The decision was made to go for Android.

IOS does have OnSong, which gets great reviews (some of my bandmates use this) and songs can be shared with them. I don't know if you are aware, but I added a 'Web server' version into the beta app a few releases ago that allows any device (desktop, Mac, iPhone, etc.) to access a host running OpenSongApp as long as they are on the same WiFi network (you can run a WiFi hotspot on a device if required).  My bandmate using OnSong has recently switched to this for performances and can get access to all of my songs.  The downsides are that it is view access only to the songs (they can browse song and set menus) but don't get access to other features of the app. You can find out about the web server utility here:

https://www.opensongapp.com/user-manual/web-server

Regarding an iOS version of the app, I doubt that will happen from me as it would require learning another coding language.  What does potentially have merit is an adaption of the web server system on the app to allow it to run as a stand alone application.  This may have merit in creating a cross device compatible version in the future.  This isn't in my immediate plans though!

The app is provided free of charge and is open source on GitHub (https://github.com/thebigg73/OpenSongTablet) - anyone can contribute, etc.  If there are any C++/iOS coders out there who want to get involved, I'm always open to code contributors!

Gareth

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