We had another community call yesterday, in which we discussed the following points:
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The current priorities: autodownload improvements, issues with streaming jumping back and forth, player screen improvements. (On the latter, we need to get back to the designers that offered help.)
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The state of the Open Podcast API: description of subscriptions endpoint done, description of episodes endpoint in progress (discussions mostly done), then authentication to be discussed and covered. After these three we can mark it as first ‘beta’ (at which point AntennaPod can implement).
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PR for all website translations, promised by @keunes in previous call. He didn’t get round to doing the PR in the meantime but during the call showed how to do it, so @femmdi can do it in future.
- Side note: The steps should be documented, probably in the contributor documentation. We should move on with Contributor documentation · Issue #311 · AntennaPod/antennapod.github.io · GitHub
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@TSampley joined us for the first time and brought up the topic of episode online search. Conclusion is that it’s dependent on another issue (ability to open/deep link to a single episode), which is, however, relatively simple to address. And we discussed the UI/UX approach for episodes search - of which we shared the conclusions in the issue: Option to search episodes (of not-subscribed podcasts) · Issue #7486 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub
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bottom navigation, specifically the order of screens/menu items. Discussed earlier that ‘episodes’ isn’t that important to have in the first 4 items, subscriptions all the more. Order is currently fixed and users who use it often probably have muscle memory for it. Two options:
- Change the order only for new installs.
- Change the order for everyone.
We opted for the latter: if only for new installs, existing users might disregard (have objections to) bottom nav when trying it out for the first time because the offered menu entries aren’t convenient. We want to prevent this because in the long term we want everyone on bottom nav and drop the side menu. Existing users which are disturbed by the new/changed order can change it back to their liking as this version also introduces menu reordering.
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We discussed the planning for the next release. There are currently 46 commits with many bug fixes, bottom navigation and ability to reorder navigation (side menu & bottom). That is quite enough to have a beta, and the bottom navigation probably needs a long(er) test period. @ByteHamster said he’ll try to prepare the beta release.