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I have released a new version of Anytime to the Google Play Beta channel & Apple TestFlight. If anyone has some time to give it a try and send some feedback that would be fantastic.
The main focus on this release is the support for transcripts. #podcast #flutter
Google Play Beta:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.me.amugofjava.anytime
Apple TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/C9D6ODqx
@amugofjava downloaded. It’s a bit slow fetching the podcast data. Wondering where you’re getting that data from.
Also transcript button should hide or be grayed out when no transcription is available.
@russellharrower All the data is taken from the RSS feed, so it can get a bit slow depending upon its size and complexity. I need to try and find some optimisations in the XML processing.
Yes, I agree, that transcript button needs greying out when one isn't available. I'll fix that. Thanks very much for the feedback.
@amugofjava nice, i meant when I open the app and all the different podcasts load that part is slow.
Moving into a single podcast is fine.
@russellharrower Ah, OK! Hmm, how many seconds would you say it's taking to start and roughly how many podcasts do you have in your library
@amugofjava about 15-30 seconds on first load. Also on wifi not cell.
Also the <all> category only shows a max of 20 podcasts.
@amugofjava also i would suggest if possible i noticed when i went to click on a podcast RSS feed in safari that it over me to open it in overcast, if you can get it to also offer the ability to open it in your app that would be great. I don’t know if you can do that in #flutter i know on #swift you can.
@russellharrower Thanks for the suggestion. There is a URL format for Anytime that can do that - but it is specific to Anytime. I'll take a look into how Overcast does it.
@amugofjava Ben, just wanted to give you an update, we have added anytime as one of the supported players that we now track - our podcast hosting platform is due to launch next month.
Interested in knowing what ways you have of adding new podcasts, do you have a submit API that we can add into our site to allow users to 1 click get listed on your app?
@russellharrower That's great, thanks. Anytime uses either the iTunes or PodcastIndex API to search for podcasts. After that, it's all driven by the RSS feed. Anytime itself doesn't have a backend or API.
@amugofjava that explains the slow load issues. Because you don’t control their servers all it takes is high demand or for them to go offline or block your request.
I would look at potentially catching the data in your own database. You could then build recommendation engine to recommend new podcasts based on my past listening experiences.
@russellharrower When you follow a podcast, Anytime will persist it to a local database, but yes, otherwise it is dependant upon iTunes/PodcastIndex and the RSS hosts.
There are advantages to having your own back-end, such as building a recommendation engine, but for a small, open-source project it's not an option for now. I see Anytime as a bit like AntennaPod - albeit with a fraction of the install base - in that it's all on device.