Retro Music Player

Want to get a blast from the past? This music mobile app features exclusively 80s artists and their songs, along with some information about the band! This app was made in SwiftUI using Firebase

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Inspiration

I was immediately inspired by this hackathon's retro theme and knew I wanted to incorporate this into my project. I have been slowly teaching myself mobile development and figured this would be the best way to put my skills to the test!! As someone who is a big fan of 80's music, I decided to go with an app that had a 100% retro vibe to fit with my music taste, along with providing information about the various artsists

What it does

This mobile app has a series of 80's artists to whom you can learn more about, while also enjoying some of their most popular songs!

How we built it

I built this app using SwiftUI and Firebase. I have all of my data stored in Firebase which my app iterates through and presents the data to the user.

Challenges we ran into

I am sure every programmer has accidentally deleted their entire project while adding the finishing touches... This happened to me. Around 3 am when I was adding my last lines of code, I accidentally deleted my whole project. While everything was saved to my trashcan, all of my framework configurations and organizational hierarchy were completely scrambled. I had to redo nearly everything last minute. Thankfully, I fixed everything and celebrated by listening to Kate Bush's sweet voice on my app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is the first fully functional mobile application I have ever made and I am extremely proud of how it turned out. I am also very proud of myself for learning Firebase in a very short amount of time and saving my project from disaster.

What we learned

I learned that I should definitely keep an up-to-date git repository in case something like this happens again. I have also learned that I am more capable than I give myself credit for. I had doubts coming into this project, but I managed to figure it out okay!

What's next for Retro Music Player

I would LOVE to integrate a multi-user feature where people can message one another and share their favorite songs. I would also like to add more songs and artists because I did not have enough time to add more during the hackathon.

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