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Design-focused fork of Metrolist YouTube Music client, currently rebuilding its visual identity around a retro monospace aesthetic with Space Mono typography, flat monochrome surfaces, and a click-wheel player. Version 0.1.0-alpha24 adds in-app update downloads with resume support and a Smart Boot option for faster cold starts.
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About this app
Iride is a fork of Metrolist, a YouTube Music Android client. This fork is driven by a design-first vision: the goal is to deliver a music experience that feels as good as it sounds — prioritising the visual and aesthetic dimension of the app.
The project follows a deliberate two-phase approach:
UX first — fix, refine, and align all functional and structural aspects inherited from Metrolist before touching the visual layer. UI second — once the UX foundation is solid, redesign the visual identity: typography, colour, motion, and layout. Phase 1 (UX) is done. The app now works the way it should.
Development has moved into Phase 2: the visual identity is being rebuilt around a retro monospace look — Space Mono typography, flat monochrome surfaces, a click-wheel player, and consistent motion across every screen.
With the UX foundation solid, work has shifted fully to graphics and style. The app is being refined into a cohesive retro monospace identity:
Space Mono typography across the whole app • Flat, monochrome surfaces — no gradients, no noise • Click-wheel player and vinyl-peek mini player • Consistent enter/exit motion on every screen (Home, Library, Search, Artist, Album, Player) • This phase is actively in progress — screens are being redesigned and polished one by one.
What's new
- New features - Update inside the app: the "New version available" popup now downloads the APK itself with a live progress percentage, then walks you through installing — including the "allow installing apps" permission step, a Retry action, and clear errors when storage is full or the connection drops. Downloads run through the system download manager with a progress notification and resume safely if the app closes. - Smart Boot (Settings > Interface, on by default): noticeably faster startup — Featured loads instantly from a saved snapshot, shelves hold their place with shimmer placeholders instead of popping in and shifting content, no artificial stagger delays, and the chip row is fetched once per cold start. Turn it off to restore the original launch behavior (takes effect after restart).
- Improvements - Cold start in light mode no longer flashes black/white before the real theme appears - Queue rows keep a fully transparent background at rest and mid-drag: no leftover translucent rectangle behind equalizer bars or queue numbers on the page background - Hero carousel restores instantly from its snapshot at startup - Auto-Mix suggestions no longer survive app restarts, and any new queue (playlist, album, search) cleanly disarms an active radio - Mini player to full player morph: title/artist lines converge smoothly instead of drifting apart in the mini state, with no ellipsis jump mid-animation
About this version
- Version
- 0.1.0-alpha24 (21)
- Size
- 23.45 MB
- Requires Android
- 8.0
- Target SDK
- 26
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
- Downloads
- 13
- Updated
- Aug 23, 2026
- Package
- com.iride.music
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