Papilio
Papilio is a reimplementation of Bowtie's public APIs for Cycript on the iPhone.
If that doesn't mean anything to you, here's a (longer, but easier to understand) plain English description:
Bowtie, as you probably know, is an iTunes controller for OS X that can be themed. Those themes are called Bowlets, and are composed of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Bowtie exposes some functionality to JavaScript; those are the Bowtie APIs.
The Bowtie APIs are tied to iTunes, and are closed-source, so anyone wanting to create something similar to Bowtie would have to reinvent the wheel.
So why reinvent the wheel? People already know how to create Bowlets, so why not expose the same functionality as Bowtie does in the same way? That is what Papilio does.
Papilio can be embedded into Cydgets to give them music controls or information on the currently playing track. It can also be used to convert existing Bowlets into Cydgets with minimal effort, or to use the familiar Bowtie APIs in any other Cycript projects.
New in Papilio 1.1.x
- 1.1.2: The artwork callbacks were not being given an empty string in the case where a song doesn't have artwork. This has been fixed.
- 1.1.1: The LCD code would load the date/time initially, but would then error out due to calling methods on the wrong object. This has been fixed.
- Cydgets without a specified album art size will be returned a 320x320 artwork graphic by default.
- undefined is returned as a property when a track is not playing instead of crashing out
- Bowlet conversion guide is updated to use onload instead of a tail call, for compatibility with the Bowtie Starter Pack (and subsequent mods).
Downloads
- Papilio in itself only requires Cycript, but most people will want to use it in collaboration with Cydget.
- If you like Papilio, or any of my work, please consider donating towards a new iPod touch, as my current one is slowly dying. Thank you.
- papilio.compiled.js; for performance reasons, use this for any of your personal projects.
- papilio.cy (full source code); use this if you're interested in modifying Papilio's inner workings or if you want to find out how it works.
- Source code for past versions of Papilio.
- Soon!?: A demo Cydget by Plizzo using Papilio to display live track info.