[android-developers] Music notation application

[Simon Giddings]

I am researching the writing of a simple music notation program which 
will permit simple actions such as

   - Display
   - Transposition
   - Annotation
   - etc

My first hurdle is how to display the music.

The majority of desktop apps use music fonts, which makes zooming and 
resizing quite simple. However, it would appear that I would need to be 
able to access the individual glyphs to do this - which is not possible in 
android as far as I understand.

Should I stick with a music font and try to find a way to get the 
information needed ?

Should I abandon this and be looking at using svg files or transparent PNGs 
?

Can anyone advise here, please ?

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Re: [android-developers] Music notation application

[Jonas Petersson]

Hi Simon,

On 2012-05-08 15:43, Simon Giddings wrote:

I am researching the writing of a simple music notation program which
will permit simple actions such as

  * Display
  * Transposition
  * Annotation
  * etc

My first hurdle is how to display the music.


Cool, I've written a fairly simple music notation app called Zap's abc 
a few years back. You may already know that the abc notation has been 
around for a pretty long time so in fact, my exceedingly simple approach 
is actually to just provide a simple text editor and then bounce that 
text to my own server where it is transformed to either PDF or Midi 
which is displayed/played on the phone with the standard apps.


Perhaps not ideal for people who need it offline, but pretty simple once 
you get the hang of abc (the original target audience was folk music so 
it is pretty straight forward for simple stuff, but with a bit of effort 
you can create symphonies if you like).


This may not be what you need, but I though you might want to try it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.petersson.abc

Good luck / Jonas

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