Podcini-podcast/README.md

# Podcini

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Podcini is an open source podcast manager/player project.

This project is a fork of [AntennaPod](<https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod>) as of Feb 5 2024.

Compared to AntennaPod this project:

1. Migrated the media player to `androidx.media3`,
2. Added `AudioOffloadMode` support, which is supposed to be kind to device battery,
3. Relies on the most recent dependencies,
4. Is __purely__ Kotlin based,
4. Targets Android 14,
5. Aims to improve efficiency and provide more user-friendly features

[<img src="https://fdroid.gitlab.io/artwork/badge/get-it-on.png"
     alt="Get it on F-Droid"
     height="80">](https://f-droid.org/packages/ac.mdiq.podcini/)

Or download the latest APK from the [Releases Section](https://github.com/XilinJia/Podcini/releases/latest).

## Version 4

Some drastic changes are made in the project since version 4.0:
- A whole new interface of the Subscriptions page showing only the feeds with tags as filters, no longer having tags as folders in the page,
- Home, Echo and Inbox pages are removed from the project,
- Subscriptions is now the default page,
- Feed list are no longer shown in the drawer,
- Access to statistics is in the drawer.
- `OnlineFeedView` activity is stripped down to only receive externally shared feeds,
- Viewbindings are enabled for most views,
- Project became mono-modular.

Even so, the database remains backward compatible, and AntennaPod's db can be easily imported.

## Notable new features & enhancements

### Player

* More convenient player control displayed on all pages
* Revamped and more efficient expanded player view showing episode description on the front
* External player class is merged into the player
* Playback speed setting has been straightened up, three speed can be set separately or combined: current audio, podcast, and global
* Added preference "Fast Forward Speed" under "Playback" in settings with default value of 0.0, dialog allows setting a number between 0.0 and 10.0
* The "Skip to next episode" button on the player
  * 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
* 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)
* if the user customizes "Fallback speed" to a value greater than 0.1, long-press the Play button during play enters the fallback mode and plays at the set fallback speed, single tap exits the fallback mode
* Various efficiency improvements, including removal of:
  * redundant media loadings and ui updates
  * frequent list search during audio play
* 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
* new video episode view, with video player on top and episode descriptions in portrait mode
* easy switches on video player to other video mode or audio only
* default video player mode setting in preferences
* 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

### Podcast/Episode list

* New and efficient ways of click and long-click operations on lists:
  * click on title area opens the podcast/episode
  * long-press on title area automatically enters in selection mode
  * options to select all above or below are shown action bar together with Select All
  * operations are only on the selected (single or multiple)
* List info is shown in Queue and Downloads views
* Left and right swipe actions on lists now have telltales and can be configured on the spot
* Played episodes have clearer markings
* Sort dialog no longer dims the main view
* Subscriptions view has sorting by "Unread publication date"

### Podcast/Episode

* New share notes menu option on various episode views
* Feed info view offers a link for direct search of feeds related to author
* New episode home view with two display modes: webpage or reader
* Text-to-Speech is enabled in reader's mode
* RSS feeds with no playable media can be subscribed and read/listened

### Online feed

* More info about feeds are shown in the online search view
* Ability to open podcast from webpage address
* Online feed info display is handled in similar ways as any local feed, and offers options to subscribe or view episodes
* Online feed episodes can be freely played (streamed) without a subscription
* externally shared feed opens in the new online feed view fragment
* Youtube channels are accepted from external share or paste of address in podcast search view, and can be subscribed as a normal podcast, though video play is handled externally

### Security

* Disabled `usesCleartextTraffic`, so that all content transmission is more private and secure

For more details of the changes, see the [Changelog](changelog.md)

## Screenshots

<img src="./images/1_drawer.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/2_setting.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/2_setting1.jpg" width="238" />

<img src="./images/3_subscriptions.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/4_queue.jpg" width="238" />  

<img src="./images/5_podcast_0.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/5_podcast_1.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/5_podcast_setting.jpg" width="238" />

<img src="./images/6_episode.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/7_speed.jpg" width="238" />

<img src="./images/8_swipe_setting.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/8_swipe_setting1.jpg" width="238" />

<img src="./images/9_feed_search.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/9_online_feed_info.jpg" width="238" /> <img src="./images/91_online_episodes.jpg" width="238" />

## Links

* [Changelog](changelog.md)
* [Privacy Policy](PrivacyPolicy.md)
* [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)
* [Translation (Transifex)](https://app.transifex.com/xilinjia/podcini/dashboard/)

## License

Podcini, same as the project it was forked for, is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0).
You can find the license text in the LICENSE file.

## Copyright

New files and contents in the project are copyrighted in 2024 by Xilin Jia and related contributors.

Original contents from the forked project maintain copyrights of the AntennaPod team.

## Licenses and permissions

[Licenses and permissions](Licenses_and_permissions.md)