Undulib - The Audiobook player for Audiodrama enthusiasts

I submitted an update that adds support for iOS 9's multitasking/split-screen feature.

Just wanted to say I am still using this since its original release and it's been great, very happy and would highly recommend it to anybody

Aww shucks guys.
Thanks for the support!

It uses iTunes. Basically it's a replacement for the Music or iBooks app (depending on which iOS version). I figured I would have less problems if I let iTunes do all the file syncing. This way Undulib only needs to read what is present on the device. Also, trying to get files to sync to an iDevice, unless you're Apple, is kind of clunky.

If I ever make an Android version (it's planned but won't be for a while), I won't be using something like iTunes. It will probably be the more traditional "drag n drop" files to a folder and Undulib will scan the directory.

You're using Linux?

Yeah....  that'll probably never happen... 

Sorry  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Great question! I can provide some context 

Mostly, it has to do with frameworks.

So yeah, "Mac OS X"/iOS is Unix, but everything you build uses Apple's proprietary cocoa framework to take care of interface stuff. On top of that you're either using Objective-C or Swift as the language. While those languages are not really platform dependent, one still has to rewrite quite a bit of code for each platform.

Then there's Android. Android, I guess, is running on Linux, but everything you write is in Java. Which at first sounds great because Java runs on almost everything! Except, again, you're using the Android framework most of the time, which means you'd have to rewrite your code for each platform.

This simplifies down to this:

1) the language needs to have a compiler for each platform
2) the framework needs to be compatible for each platform

There's problems inherent with having compiler/frameworks that are cross compatible.

Take the paint program GIMP for example. I believe it is written in C++ and uses the GTK framework. This means it runs on everything. But does it run on everything in a "native" feeling way? I know on OS X GIMP is very ugly and doesn't use native key shortcuts. On Windows it's still pretty decent. The only place GIMP feels at home, in my opinion, is on Linux.

Then there's a middle approach, (which I think is awesome, but beyond my expertise)

Microsoft Word is a good example. I believe they have written the entire "engine" in C++. This is just all the backend stuff, mostly no interface code. Then they rewrite all the interface stuff for each platform. This is why Word looks good on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. The interface is native, but the engine behind everything is where all the magic happens.

Hope that clears some things up

Version 1.2.2 is now available.
+Undulib works with third-party launchers.
+Added option to use stock player like the old version. (some people wanted play counts to sync with iTunes)

Welcome back Gary

Im sorry, the comments haven't been that high of a priority. Its still the same as the screenshot I showed on the other forum. I've mostly been making small tweaks here and there. It's on the to-do list though