Redesigned android music player, at last!

[f3rrand]

Hey fellas, I am a graphic designer and owner of a g1 since day one. I love the device and most of it. But I think they've done a horrible job with the UI design on the Music Player. It just sucks, and I've tried the others on the market, but they are just so TACKY!

I have been wanting to redesign the UI for a while but I'm not a programmer, neither do I have time to learn it. As a graphic designer, what I can do is design the UI.

I would like for someone to help me either create a new skin for the android music player, or create a music player from scratch.

Here is a link to something I've come up with, very clean and modern. http://www.snapdrive.net/files/145643/herow-newmedia.jpg

If there are any talented programmers interested please hit me up.

Here is the design in black. (thanks for the idea, Iridox!). http://www.snapdrive.net/files/145643/htc-hero-72.jpg

UPDATED UI
I'M ABOUT TO SWITCH TO THE IPHONE, LETS GET SOME TALENTED PROGRAMMERS INTERESTED.

 

[Iridox]

That looks neat. Maybe do another mockup with black background & white text and make the scroll bar green instead to match the Hero colors

 

[joshuas_79]

Really nice concept, I like your style.
I think, for the moment, it's easier to make a skin for androiod music player, but icons must fit in the position, color of the font and blabla bla....if you want I can send you the original images, then you can redisign and I can change them back inside of the player. (until somebody here offer you to create a complete new player).

 

[f3rrand]

black UI

That looks neat. Maybe do another mockup with black background & white text and make the scroll bar green instead to match the Hero colors

Thanks on the comment and advice, I posted the black design.

 

[cacheinjection]

really kool, fits well with my upcoming themeing project nova.
if ya wana work together on this, id love to star themeing this soon.
Could see if we can get freekyfrogy on board, and djosiah already down for it.
PM me if ya wana get this started, probibly wont get too much done befor xmas tho, just a heads up.
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[f3rrand]

thanks.

Really nice concept, I like your style.
I think, for the moment, it's easier to make a skin for androiod music player, but icons must fit in the position, color of the font and blabla bla....if you want I can send you the original images, then you can redisign and I can change them back inside of the player. (until somebody here offer you to create a complete new player).

Hey thanks for the compliments Joshua, I appreciate your offer and would consider it if no one really offers a complete revamp of the player. I just posted and I got another offer, so lets see what kind of offers and what we can do together. at the end of the day I want to do this for all of us.

Keep checking up on this thread and lets see what we can accomplish.

 

[f3rrand]

really kool, fits well with my upcoming themeing project nova.
if ya wana work together on this, id love to star themeing this soon.
Could see if we can get freekyfrogy on board, and djosiah already down for it.
PM me if ya wana get this started, probibly wont get too much done befor xmas tho, just a heads up.
cache

Thanks Cache, i'll PM you.

 

[maxisma]

This would need some xml edits to the stock Android music player.. look into the source. =)

 

[cacheinjection]

yeah thats what i was thinking, doing some work on some custom animations anyways, so figure that i will look into this at the same time.

 

[Cammarratta]

If you do so will you add a back button to the music player. Like the widget. It sucks because I love having themed stuff but I'm forced to use tunewiki seeing as how it has a back button on the widget. I'm all for a change to the player as well. G'luck mate!

 

[cacheinjection]

not sure im stilled enough as a coder to add buttons, layout xmls are one things, but new buttons are a completely different story.
ill look at the code when im changing thens tho, and let you know what goes down.

 

[nephron]

looks amazing. I love the white UI! It will look amazing on a black phone

 

[phantomzer0]

Yeah.... the topic title is incredibly misleading.

That said, if you guys could redesign the music player, that would be amazing. I don't like the market alternatives, so a redesigned player would be up my alley.

Good luck!

 

[magicdroid]

I'm willing to give this a shot.. I already downloaded the source.

 

[cacheinjection]

i too am getting there i think, have edited the source, and its looking kool.
probibly not have much to show till after xmas tho, as other commitments etc, (pesky family)

 

[magicdroid]

If the original poster could post (or PM) the modified resources that would be great, otherwise I'll have to copy/paste/re-format them from the attached mockups

i too am getting there i think, have edited the source, and its looking kool.
probibly not have much to show till after xmas tho, as other commitments etc, (pesky family)

yeah.. with their pesky dinners & booze & presents


PS. I'm going for a Donut version.

 

[f3rrand]

source files

As I mentioned before, this post is to get programmers onboard with the project so that we can work together. If any programmers are interested in making this happen just send direct message. The design is not finalized, but once I get solid details of what can and cannot be done and I can rework or tweak, then procced to design the other sections of the music player as it is a complete redesign and not just the main menu. So if you are interested in making it happen just send me a direct message. Thank you all for your interest.

 

[magicdroid]

Check your PM! I'm heading home now.

 

[Iridox]

I definitely love the black mockup man, awesome concept.

If this came to Android, it would go a long way toward beautifying the OS.

 

[ravenjr]

ui developer/(flash cs4)

Hey fellas, I am a graphic designer and owner of a g1 since day one. I love the device and most of it. But I think they've done a horrible job with the UI design on the Music Player. It just sucks, and I've tried the others on the market, but they are just so TACKY!

I have been wanting to redesign the UI for a while but I'm not a programmer, neither do I have time to learn it. As a graphic designer, what I can do is design the UI.

I would like for someone to help me either create a new skin for the android music player, or create a music player from scratch.

Here is a link to something I've come up with, very clean and modern. http://www.snapdrive.net/files/145643/herow-newmedia.jpg

If there are any talented programmers interested please hit me up.

Here is the design in black. (thanks for the idea, Iridox!). http://www.snapdrive.net/files/145643/htc-hero-72.jpg

Hey i could actually design this for you but im no programmer either, im a flash cs4 developer and im actually working on a whole new android UI but this looks hella sexy for a music player, maybe we could work on something......