# AP supporting a plugin architecture
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/ap-supporting-a-plugin-architecture/8878
**Category:** Project management
**Created:** [July 31, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/ap-supporting-a-plugin-architecture/8878 "2026-07-31T05:49:34Z")
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### Author:  [@tonytamsf](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tonytamsf)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/ap-supporting-a-plugin-architecture/8878/1 "2026-07-31T05:49:35Z")
I am currently exploring a prototype to add plugin support to AntennaPod. As documented by @keunes in [Allow creating plug-ins · Issue #7917 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/7917)
The benefits here
- Allow plugin developers to independently enhance AP without making the app complicated for everyone else
- Independent release plugins outside of AP release cycles
- Maybe enable a new revenue stream for 3rd party developers to add features to use AI to process audio stream or plugin developers to use their own AI keys to process data
- Allow plugin developers to solve long standing request that we are at a stand still such as how to handle hourly podcasts, there could be different plugins that satisfy multiple camps of users
Some use cases are:
- Hook into the feed processing to add chapters by processing audio with AI and adding chapters
- Same hook to add transcription
- Ad removal [Previous request](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/plugin-api-support/4706/6)
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/ap-supporting-a-plugin-architecture/8878/2 "2026-08-08T15:15:17Z")
That’s really nice! 🙂 Are you leaning towards Dynamic Feature Modules or Plugin Apps?
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### Author:  [@tonytamsf](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tonytamsf)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/ap-supporting-a-plugin-architecture/8878/3 "2026-08-10T16:49:56Z")
I’m prototyping using Plugin apps that will release independently of the main AP app.
I’m trying to use [https://developer.android.com/develop/background-work/services/aidl](https://developer.android.com/develop/background-work/services/aidl)
Each plugin is its own APK, its own repo, its own process. AntennaPod discovers installed plugin apps on-device via `PackageManager` and drives them over Android’s binder IPC. No plugin code ever runs inside AntennaPod’s process. Plugins are **disabled by default** and only execute after the user toggles them on in **Settings → Plugins**.
During this prototype, I am trying different plugins to extend AP just to understand where this plugin architecture’s limitations are
- add transcriptions to every episode
- add chapters (which includes marking where ads start and end)
- handle custom feed handling to try to handle the long standing request to remove hourly podcasts