This is the smallest possible thing I could build to keep poking at SwiftUI: a grid of buttons that each play an .mp3 when you tap one. Applause, bell, boing, pop, whoosh, click, beep, ding, buzz, chime, horn, tick, swoosh, ping, thud — fifteen sounds bundled into the app, plus a “premium” one (snap) sitting behind a lock icon I never actually wired up to StoreKit. The whole thing was a one-shot, written in a single sitting in mid-August.
The architecture is barely architecture. A SoundData ObservableObject holds the list of SoundItems. A SoundboardView lays them out in a 3-column LazyVGrid. An AudioService plays the file when you tap. A PurchaseService pretends to gate the premium sound. That’s basically it.
let columns = Array(repeating: GridItem(.flexible(), spacing: 10), count: 3)
LazyVGrid(columns: columns, spacing: 10) {
ForEach(visibleSounds) { sound in
SoundButton(
sound: sound,
audioService: audioService,
isPremiumUnlocked: purchaseService.hasPurchasedPremium
)
}
}
I had been doing more iOS work for fair-share and wanted to drill on the basics — @StateObject, LazyVGrid, sheets, NavigationView toolbars, Image(systemName:) — without the overhead of an actual product. A soundboard is the iOS equivalent of a TODO app: small enough to finish, big enough to touch most of the parts of the framework you’ll need later.
There are two commits on the repo: “Initial Commit” and “oneshot”. That’s the whole history. I never shipped it to the App Store, the premium tier is fake, and the lock icon doesn’t unlock anything. The mp3s are in Soundboard/Sounds/, the views are in Soundboard/Views/, and if you want to fork it and turn it into something real — go ahead. It’s a perfectly fine starting point for a soundboard you actually care about.
Written with AI.