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Material You · Jetpack Compose

A music player that feels native to your phone.

PixelPlayer is a beautiful, feature-rich Android music player. Dynamic color from your wallpaper, gapless ExoPlayer playback, synchronized lyrics, Chromecast and even AI-generated playlists.

Android 11+Kotlin 100%Open source
PixelPlayer now-playing screen
✨ Features

Everything you want in a player.

Crafted with Material 3 and built on the latest Android media stack.

🎨

Modern UI/UX

  • Material You — dynamic color theming from your wallpaper
  • Smooth animations and micro-interactions
  • Adjustable corner radius and nav bar
  • Automatic or manual dark/light theme
  • Dynamic colors extracted from album art
🎵

Powerful Playback

  • Media3 ExoPlayer with FFmpeg support
  • Background playback with media session
  • Drag-and-drop queue management
  • Shuffle, repeat, gapless playback
  • Configurable crossfade transitions
📚

Library Management

  • MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WAV and more
  • Browse by Songs, Albums, Artists, Genres, Folders
  • Smart multi-artist parsing
  • Album artist grouping
  • Folder filtering for scans
🔍

Discovery & Organization

  • Full-text search across your library
  • Daily Mix from your listening habits
  • Custom playlists
  • Listening history & statistics
🎤

Lyrics

  • Synchronized LRC lyrics via LRCLIB
  • Edit or add lyrics to any track
  • Scrolling display that follows playback
🖼️

Artist Artwork

  • Automatic artist images from Deezer
  • LRU + database caching, offline ready
  • Beautiful fallback placeholders
📲

Connectivity

  • Chromecast to TV and speakers
  • Android Auto support (soon)
  • Home-screen Glance widgets
⚙️

Advanced

  • Tag editor powered by TagLib
  • AI playlists with Gemini, Deepseek, OpenAI…
📱 Screens

Designed for every moment.

Album-art driven palettes, fluid transitions and Material You shapes throughout.

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🛠️ Tech stack

Built on the modern Android stack.

100% Kotlin, Compose-first, with a clean MVVM architecture and the libraries the platform team itself recommends.

Language
Kotlin 100%
UI
Jetpack Compose
Design
Material Design 3
Audio
Media3 ExoPlayer + FFmpeg
Architecture
MVVM · StateFlow
DI
Hilt
Database
Room
Networking
Retrofit + OkHttp
Images
Coil
Async
Coroutines & Flow
Background
WorkManager
Widgets
Glance
📱 Requirements

Made for modern Androids.

  • • Android 11 (API 30) or higher
  • • 6GB RAM recommended for smooth performance
⬇️ Download

Get PixelPlayer for Android.

Grab the latest APK from GitHub releases. No fork support — install from the official source.