Home screen proposal

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@ByteHamster

• Chromecast button: I would postpone this until Chromecast support is rewritten. It’s currently rather hard to do, I think

Yeap, Home screen can live without it in the beginning.

@ByteHamster

• Search: Is this a local search feature? Maybe we could add a button to the local search results page that then searches for new podcasts (independently from the home screen)

Yup, local search. Not sure what you mean with adding a button? If it’s local search, we don’t need a button, right?

@ByteHamster

• Continue listening: In German, the translation of title and queue button will likely not fit into one line. Do we need to show the episode from the miniplayer again? I find it important to show a link to the queue screen, so I guess we can show it again.

Yeah, was wondering as well if this makes sense given there’s the miniplayer. As for the titles, I was thinking of using just one verb per block (e.g. “Continue”, “Rediscover”) which would be shorter, but couldn’t find one for each block.

@ByteHamster

• Latest: Looking at this, I really want to rename the “new” screen to “inbox”, as it is easier to understand (probably not to be discussed here). Not sure about using two different layouts for the list items, as it’s less consistent (and probably makes the code more complex)

For inbox/New screen: yeap, let’s continue discussing that in the Inbox thread
For two different layouts: are you referring to the Inbox proposal, or something on the Home screen here?

@ByteHamster

• Classics: Not 100% sure about the statistics button. I think as a user I would expect it to open the subscriptions list.

If we want to include the statistics screen anywhere, this is our best option I think. In any case it provides kinda the same as the Subscriptions screen (a list of subscriptions). Only thing I think must be done to make it work is allowing to quickly open podcast from the Statistics screen.

@ByteHamster

• Rediscover: Do we really need this? I think a “downloaded” section could be more important.

Really needed, nah. Cool thing: I do think so, especially for those with 50 or more subscriptions. We could hide this until a user has 50 subscriptions, then make it appear. Personally this screen is all about playing the stuff you’re subscribed to. For me the ‘Downloaded’ doesn’t fit in that pattern, so I don’t really see why it would be important/what use-case it would serve. If there is a use-case that I’m overlooking, I’d be in favour of adding it as an extra section (rather than replacing any).

@ByteHamster

Should the episodes have swipe actions? Maybe I would postpone that feature for now because swipes would then do different things on different parts of the screen.

I didn’t intend to have swipe actions here (that’s more like management, rather than initiating playback, so out of scope).

Then, new point, about the ‘Latest’ section: would it work/be possible to introduce a ‘Download & play’ button? It would save a tap on ‘play’ when the episode is downloaded.