New Subsonic client - Kotlin Multiplatform, initially targeting iOS/Android

[gravelld]

Just wanted to flag up a project we're contributing to GitHub: KSub.

We didn't have an official Astiga app for iOS for a long time, and our Android app, based on DSub, was beginning to look long-in-the-tooth.

The background of the engineers at Astiga is predominantly around the Java ecosystem, and yet we didn't want to maintain a separate app for Android AND iOS.

Thus, we adopted Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) to first develop an alpha iOS client (which is now on the App Store), developing an Android version at the same time.

We've now generalised and extracted the generic project and publicised it as KSub.

Current functionality:

• Album, artist and playlist browse
• Playback

Goals:

• Support fully generic build and run of the project in isolation
• Continue to allow wrapping (the current approach is via overlays importing KSub as a Git submodule)

Short term work:

• Support more features - it's very feature limited right now!
• Publish it on FDroid

Maybe if someone else is interesting in Kotlin development they'd like to take a look - I'd love to work with others on it.