App for Garmin Watches / WearOS / other smart watches

Feature request
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There are no decent podcast apps for Garmin Watches.

A simple app that can sync with the Queue list would be welcome please.

Welcome features would be to filter played, unplayed.
Controls for play, pause, volume, skip back / forward, mark as played would be perfect.

Fingers crossed !

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same for Wearos, to replace Pocket cast on my phone

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+1 for pixel watch app

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Would love to see an AntennaPod app for Garmin watches as well!

The way to go there would probably be to implement an audio content provider using the Connect IQ SDK and eventually publish it to the Connect IQ Store. Apps are written in “Monkey C” (never heard of it before, looks fairly intuitive, though).

Anybody keen on giving this is a try? :innocent:

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Best podcast app, completely happy. I think it would be great if there was also a wear os app.

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A Garmin app would be great :slight_smile:

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Hey folks, I’m starting to look into this and many things look quite straightforward. Here’s a question though: How would the watch communicate with the AntennaPod app on the phone?

I believe for Spotify the watch and phone are pretty independent from one another - once the watch is signed in to the Spotify account (which is done through the phone I believe), it can access the user’s content itself. For AntennaPod there’s no user account or backend to sync to. So the watch would have to fetch the podcasts’ meta information from the app on the phone to then download the content itself. And of course it would have to notify the app on the phone about the progress in playback.

So I’m just starting to look into this, but if somebody has some pointers, maybe from other projects involving communication between a Bluetooth-conmected device and an app on a phone - I’d much appreciate a quick message :-).

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I’m interested in a WearOS-native version of AntennaPod.

Most WearOS watches support wireless connectivity, including Bluetooth audio. I’d love to see a version of AntennaPod that can operate independently from the phone app - allowing playback directly from the watch.

For example, I often connect my earbuds to my watch and head to the gym with just those two devices. A standalone WearOS app would make this workflow seamless.

Would it be feasible to implement sync functionality - so that playback position, progress, and subscriptions automatically reconcile with the phone app once reconnected?