Podcini-podcast/changelog.md

3.2.3

• First Podcini app
• removed unnecessary network access when screen is on to save more battery
• fixed issue with changing playback speed on S21 Android 14

3.2.4

• minor efficiency improvements

3.2.5

• fixed feed refresh and info bugs

4.0.1

• project restructured as a single module
• new Subscriptions screen
• default page to Subscriptions
• Home removed

4.1.0

• New convenient player control
• tags enhancements
• bug fixes
• View binding enabled for mode views in code

4.2.0

• Removed InBox feature
• improvement on player UI
• episode description now on first page of player popup page
• localization updates

4.2.1

• Statistics moved to the drawer
• tuned down color of player controller
• Subscriptions menu adjustment
• Subscriptions filter is disabled for now
• more null safety tuning
• fixed the refresh bug related to permissions
• long-press operation has changed
  • long-press on title area would be the same as a click
  • click on an icon allows operation on the single item
  • long-press on an icon would allow for multi-select

4.2.2

• bug fix on auto-download mistakenly set in 4.2.1
• Sorry for another change in click operation
  • long-press on an icon would be the same as a click
  • click on title area allows operation on the single item
  • long-press on title area would allow for multi-select

4.2.3

• fixed bug Inbox still set as default first tab
• cleaned up Inbox related resources
• removed info button in FeedItemList header
• added items count in FeedItemList header
• fixed bug in FeedItemList when filtered list has no items
• buildConfig is set in build.gradle instead of gradle.properties

4.2.4

• fixed the "getValue() can not be null" bug
• enabled ksp for Kotlin builds
• cleaned up build.gradle files

4.2.5

• change in click operation
  • click on title area opens the podcast/episode
  • long-press on title area automatically enters in selection mode
  • select all above or below are put to action bar together with select all
  • operations are only on the selected (single or multiple)
  • popup menus for single item operation are disabled
• in podcast view, the title bar no longer scrolls off screen

4.2.6

• corrected action icons for themes
• revealed info bar in Downloads view
• revealed info bar in Subscriptions view
• reset tags list in Subscriptions when new tag is added

4.2.7

• disabled drag actions when in multi-select mode (fixed crash bug)
• renewed PodcastIndex API keys
• added share notes menu option in episode view
• https://github.com/XilinJia/Podcini/issues/20
  • press on title area of an episode now opens the episode info faster and more economically - without horizontal swipe
  • press on the icon of an episode opens the episode info the original way - with horizontal swipe

4.3.0

• added more info about feeds in the online search view
• fixed bug of preview not playing
• disabled feed filters setting in preference
• "open feed" is an action item on audio player top bar
• added swipe action telltales in all episode lists
• added NO_ACTION swipe action
• all default swipe actions are set to NO_ACTION
• cleaned up swipe preferences ui: statistics removed

4.3.1

• titles of played episodes are made brighter
• icons of played episodes are marked with a check
• icons of swipe telltales are clickable for setting
• Straightened up play speed setting
  • three places to set the play speed:
  • global setting at the preference
  • setting for a feed: either use global or customize
  • setting at the player: set for current playing and save for global
  • feed setting takes precedence when playing an episode

4.3.2

• further optimized efficiencies of episode info view
• episode info view opened from icon is now the same as that opened from title area, no long supports horizontal swipes (change from 4.2.7)
• enhanced viewbingding GC
• some code cleaning

4.3.3

• fixed bug in adding widget to home screen
• minor adjustment of widget layout
• added "audio only" to action bar in video player
• added "mark favorite" to action bar in episode view
• revamped and enhanced expanded view of the player
• vertical swipe no longer collapses the expanded view
• only the down arrow on top left page collapses the expanded view
• share notes directly from expanded view of the player
• in episode info, changed rendering of description, removed nested scroll

4.3.4

• 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

4.4.0

• 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

4.4.1

• 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

4.4.2

• converted ksp back to kapt
• unrestricted the titles to 2 lines in player details view
• fixed once again the bug of player disappear on first play
• some code refactoring

4.4.3

• 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 stripped and now only preserved for receiving shared feed
• externally shared feed opens in the online feed view fragment

4.5.0

• 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

4.5.1

• fixed bug in subscription sorting

4.5.2

• revamped audio player class, merged external player in
• speed setting now allows setting with three options: current audio, podcast, and global.
• added a bit bottom margin for the numbers in player

4.5.3

• 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