A designer/developer has created an iPhone app that recreates the UI of a click wheel iPod Classic, right down to haptic feedback and click sounds …
Elvin Hu blended it with a Cover Flow album view above the click wheel.
He tweeted a short video of the app (below), which is still a work in progress, and told The Verge what inspired the project.
I must say that the combination of click wheel iPod Classic UI and Cover Flow works well.
Hu built the app because he was working on a paper about the development of the iPod at school. “I’ve always been a fan of Apple products since I was a kid,” revealed Hu in an email to The Verge. “Before my family could afford one, I would draw the UI layout of iPhone on lids of Ferrero Rocher boxes. Their products (among other products, such as Windows Vista and Zune HD) have greatly influenced my decision of pursuing design as a career.”
Hu says he hopes to complete the project by the end of the year, but is uncertain whether Apple will approve the finished app.
He may be helped by the fact that ‘Father of the iPod’ Tony Fadell likes it. Hu tagged Fadell in his tweet, and the former Apple engineer replied, calling it a ‘nice throwback.’
If Apple does block the release, which is likely, then Hu may “release it as an open source project after seeing the response from the community.”
Check out the video below.
Turned my iPhone into an iPod Classic with Click Wheel and Cover Flow with #SwiftUI pic.twitter.com/zVk5YJj0rh
— Elvin 🏳️🌈 (@elvin_not_11) November 27, 2019
