Comment on Pinepods mobile apps and a request for help
uzay@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Awesome! Just tried out the iOS app, it looks really nice! It seems to have some quirks with local downloads, like not showing any download progress anywhere, and not being able to download some episodes despite being able to play them. But it looks like there is finally going to be an iOS podcast app that can sync through the gpodder API and that’s amazing. If it has a solid offline mode (syncing progress properly after going back online) it might replace AntennaPod on Android for me as well
madeofpendletonwool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep for sure. Download progress is a top priority feature coming. It is still somewhat beta since its so new so expect some bugs here and there for sure. As well as some missing features still. For the record it doesn’t technically sync via the gpodderapi. Because this is an official pinepods client this syncs directly via the pinepods api that the web version also uses. This is far faster than doing incremental gpodder api syncs. It still works with gpodder api to other apps because the server side handles that but this app itself uses the pinepods api.
There’s also theoretical progress syncing with offline going back to online currently but I haven’t dug into the intricacies of validating that works yet. Expect more on fleshing that out in the very short-term.
I really appreciate the thoughts on it though! It’s really helpful to have direction in other’s podcast workflows. I genuinely don’t utilize many of the features that have been implemented into Pinepods because I’m a pretty simple listener, so without feedback I wouldn’t know what else people want.