Boui Songs
A shared music player where the queue and the lyrics are the social object — shipped to both app stores.
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- Client
- Boui
- Industry
- Music & Entertainment
- Year
- 2026
- Platforms
- iOS, Android
- Our role
- Product design, cross-platform engineering, dual store release
01 — Context
Where this started.
Boui wanted a player built around a community rather than a personal library — where what is playing next is something the group can see, and the lyrics are part of the experience rather than a separate lookup.
02 — Challenge
The hard part.
Playback is unforgiving. Audio has to survive backgrounding, interruptions, calls and screen lock identically on two operating systems that handle all four differently — and the app had to launch on both stores at once, which means satisfying two review processes with one codebase.
03 — Strategy
What we decided.
We built one Flutter codebase and treated platform-specific playback behaviour as the integration surface rather than duplicating the app. Release planning ran against both stores in parallel from the start, since a staggered launch would have split the community the product depends on.
Product screens
04 — Experience
How it works for the person using it.
The visible queue is the centre of the interface — it is what makes listening shared rather than parallel. Lyrics follow the track in the same view, so nobody leaves the app to read along.
05 — Engineering
How it is built.
Cross-platform Flutter with platform playback integration on each OS, released simultaneously to Google Play and the Apple App Store.
- Flutter
- Native audio integration
- Google Play
- Apple App Store
06 — Feature stories
The decisions that mattered.
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Shared live queue
What plays next is visible to everyone, which is what turns a player into something a group uses together.
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In-context lyrics
Lyrics follow playback in the same view — no second app, no browser tab.
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Dual-store launch
One codebase, simultaneous release on Google Play and the App Store, so the community landed on both platforms at once.
07 — Results
What we can prove.
- 4.8★
- Play Store rating
- 5K+
- Installs
- 2
- Stores, one codebase
Source: Google Play listing
Source: Google Play install band
Source: Google Play + Apple App Store listings
Only verifiable figures appear here. We do not publish uplift percentages or revenue claims we cannot evidence, and we do not restate a client's internal numbers as our own.
08 — Ownership
What was handed over.
At launch, everything below transferred to Boui. Nothing in this product depends on DevXAI to keep running.
- Full Git repository with commit history
- Infrastructure and store accounts in the client’s own name
- Architecture and deployment documentation
- Walkthrough session with the client’s team
- 30-day post-launch defect warranty
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