Make use of the Android4 design guidelines

[brot]

There are some design guidelines for Android which you should make use of: https://developer.android.com/design/index.html

Especially

• https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/app-structure.html / Section "Allow cutting through hierarchies"
• Action Bar - https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html
• Selection - https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/selection.html

Instead of the player tab I would add the playlist there. The player could be always visible at the bottom instead of the Refresh/Playlist/Search/Sort buttons

If you make use of the Action Bar you can move the refresh and search action into the Action Bar.

If you make use of the selection feature you can select more than one episode and start an action for all of them (download, mark as listened, move to the playlist)

Here is an inspiring video where a developer explains design/layout changes in his app. The new app looks really amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpqUbpVx5Bo

[brot]

Today I realized some strange or missing navigation in the app. If I start an episode from the playlist detlef don't jumps into the player activity. But when I start playing an episode I want to jump to the player to read the shownotes for example. Why should I still want to look at the playlist?

Additionally it would be great to make use of the navigation feature in the Action Bar on the App Icon as described in the documentation i mentioned above.

[Horrendus]

I think you should put the problem with the playlist into a seperate issue