Finally on Android!
At launch I said 'Android will follow later'. Later is now: Modulo is on Google Play, with everything the iPhone version has. Not a cut-down version, the same app.
When Modulo came to the App Store on 20 October, the announcement ended with “Android will follow later”. Well, later is now. Modulo is on Google Play, free to download.
A lot of hard work
I’ll be honest: this was a big job, and I’ve worked really hard on it. A lot of evenings went into it, and a few nights.
The easy road would have been a quick conversion that runs on a phone and otherwise feels a bit like a website. I didn’t want that. Modulo for Android is rebuilt from the ground up for Android, screen by screen, and everything had to keep working exactly as it does on the iPhone:
- The same engine. Playback is the same heart as on iOS, and the same tests check that a song on Android sounds bit for bit the same as on an iPhone.
- All 50 visualizers, ported line by line, and built so the same song at the same moment draws the same picture on both phones.
- Every theme, with its colours, type, edges and scanlines.
- The same rules for your library, your playlists and your favourites, from one shared set of test cases for both platforms.
That last one sounds boring, but it’s why it all adds up: when I improve something from now on, it gets better on both.
What you get
Everything Modulo 1.1 has on the iPhone:
- MOD, XM, S3M, IT and over 60 more formats, sample-accurate, with the sound of a real Amiga.
- The pattern scrolling along, and turn your phone on its side for the full tracker view.
- Loops that work: Auto, Off or endless, with a clean fade-out.
- 50 visualizers that move with your music. More about them in the Modulo 1.1 post.
- Playing in the background, with the controls in your notifications and on your lock screen, including a loop mode button and a star for your favourites.
Your music, wherever it lives
On Android you link a folder on your phone, an SD card or a USB drive. Is your collection on your PC, Mac or NAS? Then Modulo connects to that shared folder itself, no extra app needed. Your password stays encrypted on your phone, and when the connection drops, Modulo tries again as soon as your network is back.
It opens a zip of modules just as easily, and a playlist or backup from an iPhone comes along in no time.
Modulo Plus
On Android, too, almost everything is free. Modulo Plus is the same one-time purchase as on the iPhone, no subscription: the themes, the EQ, export and every visualizer. And if you just want to say thanks, the tip jar is in Settings.
Let me know
Android is a world of thousands of different phones, and I really don’t have them all. Does something sound odd, or does your phone do something it shouldn’t? Mail from Settings › About Modulo in the app, or through the support page.