Ashinch
Inbuilt player for Podcast and YouTube
1. Environment
- Device: [Pixel 6]
- OS: [Android 10.1]
- APP: [0.9.5]
- Feature to play play podcast and YouTube videos in background. Allowing instance for privacy concerned fellows would be nice.
(Want you've done some research before now)
At the time of request there weren't any decent YouTube client, new player Grayjay is great, Newpipe also announced major rebuild, I've not checked it though. Cloudstream also added invidious service. As of podcast Snipd is great because of AI transcripts, not foss app. A unified space for updates on all the stuff I care is great but native app build for singular purposes always have performance and maintenance advantage. I agree with @shuvashish76 on YouTube issues. For podcasts i don't know.
I think the ReadYou app is very cool, but information consumption patterns have changed over the years, we now increasingly prefer podcasts to news feeds. I think it's important to have a built-in podcast player, especially since it's not that hard (as it seems to me) to implement it
Benefits:
- There is no podcast player with Material 3 design in the F-Droid catalog
- This is partially realized: the podcast uses RSS
- App with modern UI and open-source was most wanted
- Google Podcasts is closed in April
Against this proposal. There are many FOSS apps dedicated for Podcasts. Adding such functionality will only increase the app complexity & not to forget it's not a single feature request as podcast player brings many more new requests (ideas from other podcast apps).
IMO Read You should keep things simple & focus on improving "Read" part more easily accessible than anything else.
As for YouTube, I think people should open them in their respective YT client or browser than rely on WebView for various privacy/tracking purposes. I believe watching video/audio breaks the purpose of an "reader" app also breaks the reading flow... bad in general.
@Drsheppard01, I think AntennaPod is the podcast app you're looking for.
https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod
They haven't updated the screenshots yet but the design has improved a lot, download the app and check out the UI.
@Drsheppard01, I think AntennaPod is the podcast app you're looking for.
https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod
They haven't updated the screenshots yet but the design has improved a lot, download the app and check out the UI.
I just don't like that they don't implement a bottom navigation.. but I've been using them forever then switching to Google podcasts because of the better design. Now it's dying. I'd love to see a little play button inside of read you which pops up a bottom sheet for playback but I see why this is bad for a reader app.
IMHO, it should do what it is supposed to do, which is to parse and display feeds, which podcasts and YouTube also are. But playback should be left to external apps [although in the case of podcasts, simple playback is facile to implement and many readers do this] . Nowadays I expect from my podcats/videocast players far more; skipsilence, live transcriptions, bookmarking, chapterization and so on, and that should be handled by dedicated apps.
