Podcini
Open source podcast instrument for Android in Kotlin with media3, supporting channels, playlists and single media from YouTube and YT Music.
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- fixed bug of player always expands when changing audio
- migrated to media3's MediaSession and MediaLibraryService thought no new features added with this. some behavior might change or issues might arise, need to be mindful
- when video mode is temporarily audio only, click on image on audio player on a video episode also brings up the normal player detailed view
- added a menu action item in player detailed view to turn to fullscreen video for video episode
- added episode home view accessible right from episode info view. episode home view has two display modes: webpage or reader.
- added text-to-speech function in the reader mode. there is a play/pause button on the top action bar, when play is pressed, text-to-speech will be used to play the text. play features now are controlled by system setting of the TTS engine. Advanced operations in Podcini are expected to come later.
- RSS feeds with no playable media can be subscribed and read/listened via the above two ways
- fixed empty player detailed view on first start
- player detailed view scrolls to the top on a new episode
- created video episode view, with video player on top and episode descriptions in portrait mode
- added video player mode setting in preferences, set to small window by default
- added on video controller easy switches to other video mode or audio only
- when video mode is set to audio only, click on image on audio player on a video episode brings up the normal player detailed view
- webkit updated to Androidx
- fixed bug in setting speed to wrong categories
- improved fetching of episode images when invalid addresses are given
- enabled speed setting for podcast in video player
- fixed bug of receiving null view in function requiring non-null in subscriptions page
- set Counter default to number of SHOW_UNPLAYED
- removed FeedCounter.SHOW_NEW, NewEpisodesNotification, and associated notifications settings
- large code and directory refactoring
- removed all checks of SDK_INT vs Build.VERSION_CODES.M or 23: devices with Android 5.1 or lower are not supported, sorry
- made streamed media somewhat equivalent to downloaded media
- enabled episode description on player detailed view
- enabled intro- and end- skipping
- mark as played when finished
- streamed media is added to queue and is resumed after restart
- changes in text of share feed link
- disabled some undesired deep links
- added more info in online feed view
- added ability to open podcast from webpage address, reduced the error of "The podcast host's server sent a website, not a podcast"
- allows importing podcast from a web address, either through copy/paste or share.
- Youtube channels are accepted from external share or paste of address in podcast search view, and can be subscribed as a normal podcast. A channel is handled as a podcast feed, and videos in the channel are as episodes. Drawbacks now are playing of the video is not handled inside Podcini, but in Youtube app or the browser, and the play speed is not controlled by Podcini.
- fixed crash bug when setting fallback or fast-forward speeds with some Locales
- further enlarged height of the bottom player control to improve on missing pixels at the bottom
- on speed setting dialog, only tap on a preset chip sets the speed, only selected options will be set
- corrected the handling of current audio speed:
- when speed for current audio is not set, podcast speed takes precedence
- when speed for current audio is set, it takes precedence for the current audio (episode), even with pause/re-play
- corrected wrong caption of "Edit fallback speed"
- adjusted layout and button dimension and alignments in the bottom player control
- fallback speed setting is now capped at 0.0 and 3.0 and allows for 2-digit precision
- corrected episode count display in subscriptions list when the feed has 0 episodes
- fixed bug of sort order not stable in feed item list
- in Subscriptions view added sorting of "Unread publication date"
- added preference "Fast Forward Speed" under "Playback" in settings with default value of 0.0, dialog allows setting a float number (capped between 0.0 and 10.0)
- added preference "Fallback Speed" under "Playback" in settings with default value of 0.0, dialog allows setting a float number (capped between 0.0 and 1.5)
- added new ways to manipulate play speed
- the "Skip to next episode" button
- long-press moves to the next episode
- by default, single tap does nothing
- if the user customize "Fast Forward Speed" to a value greater than 0.1, it behaves in the following way:
- single tap during play, the set speed is used to play the current audio
- single tap again, the original play speed resumes
- single tap not during play has no effect
- the Play button
- by default, it behaves the same as usual
- if the user customize "Fallback speed" to a value greater than 0.1, long-press the button during play enters the fallback mode and plays at the set fallback speed, single tap exits the fallback mode
- created online feed view fragment
- online episodes list view is no longer restricted to 50 episodes
- online episodes list view now better handles icons
- online episodes list view goes back to the online feed view
- the original online feed view activity is only preserved for receiving shared feed
- externally shared feed opens in the online feed view fragment
- fixed bug of app crash on stream episode customization
- disabled usesCleartextTraffic, connection to http sites appear OK, report if you find an issue
- enforced non-null load location for most Glide calls
- avoided redundant media loadings and ui updates when a new audio starts
- eliminated frequent list search during audio play, a serious energy waste
- icons in online episode list, when unavailable, are set to app logo
- added direct search of feeds related to author in feed info view
- added a new episodes list fragment for arbitrary list
- revamped online feed view activity
- episodes (50 most recent) of any online feed can be viewed and played (streamed) directly without subscribing to the feed
- bug fixes on passing Glide with null addresses
- null safety enhancements in code
- fixed bug player disappear on first play
- more viewbinding GC enhancements
- added sort by feed title in downloads view
- more items on action bar in feed item list view
- some cleaning of redundant qualifiers
- sort dialog no longer dims the main view
- added random sort to feed items view