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Free and open source Audiobookshelf Android client (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all, The other day, I posted here asking about recommendations on audiobooks servers and clients for iOS, and I got so many nice and very helpful responses from you all. I really, really appreciated the sense of community and help that you all showed me. Some of you mentioned Android clients and I checked them out since I do have an Android phone and the iOS one was for my wife. I appreciated the two Android clients I saw, the official ABS and Lissen but they weren’t what I was looking for (with the utmost respect to their developers of course).

A kind soul here recommended the app Still for iOS. I checked it out and it was such a nice app. The wife loved it too. I was bummed that it was iOS only. So, I decided to make one for Android (with the help of AI for transparency of course). I’ve been working on it nonstop for over 2 weeks now. When I say nonstop, I mean I stay up until 1AM daily working on it. I’ve got something working really well now.

I wanted to share that with you all in the hope that someone will find it useful. It’s completely free and open source (GPLv3). Completely private. Nothing leaves your device beside the calls the app makes to your own server. I won’t ask for donations or anything. I just want to share. I welcome any feedback and contributions.

Get it here and let me know.

Edit: screenshots are in. I welcome any feedback/github bug reports so I can make the app better. This is an app I now use daily for hours so I won’t mind any bug reports that I don’t catch myself.

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[–] tripping335@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I've been using the official ABS app in Android for a while now and am curious what exactly makes it fall short?

I'm a software developer and it would have to be severely lacking for me to invest the time in sitting down and create a new one, even with AI tools. But that may be more of a disadvantage.

Sounds cool though, I haven't seen Still and it would be nice with some screenshots.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

am curious what exactly makes it fall short?

The podcast playback is sorely lacking. It can't play more than one episode without having to select the episode, which makes playlists kinda pointless unless it's just following one storyline in a podcast that runs more than one concurrently. It also doesn't seem to support defaulting listing order other than newest, and the next episode is always the latest, despite the current playback order

[–] tripping335@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Oh, I don't listen to podcasts so I wasn't aware it was this lacking. Understandable wanting something else in that case.

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