A podcast player based on web technology.
This is a experimental implementation of an podcast player. Primary targets are playback of audio files, loading and parsing podcast feeds and save audio files from the internet. Secondary targets are a completely client side/browser side implementation and offline availability of the app, the data and the audio files.
I use different APIs and technologies, specified in the HTML5 universe, to reach this target:
- Offline Availability: AppCache
- Access to Feeds and Files: AJAX
- Storage for app data: Local Storage or Indexed Database API
- Storage for audio files: Indexed Database API or File System API
- Playback: Media API
At the moment the app can …
- Parse RSS feeds (version 2)
- Identify Audio-Files in this feeds
- Manage subscription of feeds
- Download and save files (in Firefox and Chrome/Opera)
- Play/Pause podcast episodes
- Manage a playlist
- Persist playback status (timecode) of podcast episodes
- hold code and markup in app cache for offline availability
Installing the app from marketplace have some restrictions:
- There is no copy&paste. So, you need to enter all URLs manualy and can't copy them from your browser.
- The app, launched on Andrid, can not open external links in browser. Instead it do nothing.
The same origin policy restricts the access to internet resources. So I need a solution to solve this Problem. To solve this I transfered the app to a Firefox "Open Web App". This is available for install on the Firefox Marketplace
I'm not a Designer! Contact me if you would help.
For the current design I have to thank Mozilla and there Building Blocks.
I use Grunt to build the app in different versions: A web app to host on your own web server and a packaged app for Firefox OS/Firefox Marketplace. More will come later.
- Install it on FirefoxOS, Android, Linux, Windows and OS X from Firefox Marketplace (prefered).
- You can test the web version at http://podcatcher.sebastiansit.de/playlist.html. In addition you need a http proxy to avoid SOP-Errors.
