Alpha #16
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Here you go. This is not a beta, it's an alpha release. It's not feature complete. It still has some issues. But I'm ok with showing you the app I'm working on.
Feel free to use it on your onw risk. Here is a list of issues and further improvements that I will work on until the release. Please don't report any bugs you encounter on these elements:
Downloading files
Sometimes files can't be saved. I have to figure out why. Oh and I can not promise that files are deleted propperly. This is something I know how to solve.
Player
When a Episode is loaded into the player, the progressbar is not updated until you press play.
Chapters
I'm using different ways to get the chapter information. At the moment, for debug reasons, all these chapters are displayed. So you can see the same chapter several times. This will change as soon as I solved the next problem.
mp3 chapters
mp3 Chapters are not easily accessible with system tools. I need to read the ID3 part of the mp3 file manually and extract the information. I'm currently trying to understand the ID3 Tag specification. Therefore mp3 chapters are not yet supported. But they should, i know.
Colors
Yes the colors in dark mode are not nice. The Shownotes are not readable. They are currently implemented as a Webview to allow links, that might be in the feed, to work. I know this is not shipable like this
Up next
Sometimes you can't reorder the episodes in the up next list. In addition sometimes shows that are played are not put on top or when you put a new episode on the top and another one is playing, suddenly the playing episode is the second one in the list. This is not the intended behaviour and I have to update that.
CarPlay
The one day I was driving, I couldn't use my app, because it doesn't support CarPlay. This is on the top of my priority list.
Settings per Podcasts
The base structure is there, it's just not finished. I'm working on it.
Skipping front and back
Skipping (yes there is a spelling mistake in the app) shows too many skips. I have an idea how to solve this but i'm too tired to implement it now.
Skipping Chapters by keyworkds
The base structure is there, it's just not finished. I'm working on it.
Search
I'm currently using iTunes Search. I will switch to fyyd (maybe make it selectable). I also want to implement recomendations. I'm working on it
Auto downloads
I'm working on it
Automatically putting shows in the upnext queue
I'm working on it
Refresh
This is a big one. Apple allows only limited background activity. Currently I have one big job that checks if a feed is new, downloads and parses it. This takes some time. I'm planning to chnage this to several smaller jobs. One job to check if there is something new. This job can run much more often as it takes only short time. One Job to download new episodes. This Job will take more time and runs not as often. Oh and the current way of working sometimes crashes the app.
Notification
When new Episodes are downloaded in the background, I want to show a local notification. This is not yet implemented.
Bookmarks
You can set Bookmarks in the now playing screen, you can see and jump to your bookmarks from the episode view. I also would like to set bookmarks by double clicking the earpod and with siri. and carplay. I'm working on it.
Navigation
I have to implement navigation between the Now Playing screen and the episode view.
Accepting files/links
currently it's only possible to import OMPL files from the app. you can't use the share sheet to share it to the app. You can also not share rss/xml links to the app. I plan to implement it in the future.
So you see, there is still a lot to do. If you still dare to try out the app, here is the testflight link. https://testflight.apple.com/join/WAC8khEt
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