Problem

I'm frustrated when I am listening to a podcast while navigating and Siri speaks over my podcast rather than pausing audio despite having the "Direction Pause Spoken Audio" setting enabled.

Proposed solution

I'd like to see the playback session registered as spokenAudio when playback is started so iOS knows that it should pause audio in PodVerse when interrupting notification (such as directions) are being played.

Additional context

iOS 16 does not recognize PodVerse is playing "spoken audio".

It looks like this might be gated on #1179. When doing setupPlayer(), options.iosCategoryMode should be set to spokenAudio so that iOS will know to optionally pause the track (per user preference) when in applications such as Maps that could interrupt playback.

Hi @mitchdowney,

Running Podverse on a device with a high resolution the episode details display correctly. On a 720p device the title and chapter can be cropped. Please see images below:

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Things are cramped in a small screen. Very hard to use on an iPad.

Describe the solution you'd like Proper iPad support Split screen support

Additional context Allow contents to be stretched, as a stopgap solution before building proper wide screen UI

See the podverse-web footer for the image.

1. Render the image on the bottom of the About Screen. There is a PVFastImage component that can be used for this.

2. Wrap the image with a TouchableWithoutFeedback component, and on press of the image, add the following handler:

    Alert.alert(PV.Alerts.LEAVING_APP.title, PV.Alerts.LEAVING_APP.message, [
      { text: translate('Cancel') },
      { text: translate('Yes'), onPress: () => Linking.openURL('https://podcastindex.org') }
    ])

Note: you'll need to import the PV variable if it's not already available in the AboutScreen.ts.

This issue has gone on for a long time, and appears to be related to this issue in react-native-track-player https://github.com/react-native-kit/react-native-track-player/issues/921

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I have a lot of podcast subscriptions. Finding the podcast I'm looking for in my list is very difficult. The search bar at the top searches the entire podcast index which isn't helpful.

I filter my own podcast subscriptions multiple times per day, but only search for new podcasts once a month or less.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd love to see an option to filter my subscriptions. It could search the podcast title and description fields.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I switched from Pocket casts, and I have to say I didn't filter (via typing) for my podcasts very often. I think that's because their subscriptions list is a tightly packed tiled layout of podcast covers.

I just checked on my Samsung S21 phone, in pocketcasts I can see 24 of my subscriptions at once. In podverse I see only 7.

Additional context

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Allow a configurable option for skipping with bluetooth buttons. Antennapod can skip forward 30 seconds when pressing the skip buttons in my cars bluetooth. The same button moves to the next podcast in Podverse

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like a setting to switch between the skip buttons on bluetooth going to the next podcast, and using the stock skip forward options (default is 30 seconds forward, 10 seconds back)

Describe the bug After updating the app, I was logged out. When trying to log back in, I was met with the error text in the title. I've tested this on my home wifi (Spectrum, USA) and Verizon Wireless LTE. Both resulted in the same issue.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Launch app
2. More > Log in
3. Enter credentials and submit
4. Received error

Expected behavior My account should be logged in after submitting valid credentials.

Screenshots

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: Google Pixel 6a
• OS: 12, build SD2A.220601.004.B2
• App Version 4.6.0 F-Droid

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

Please feel free to join our Discord and chat with us in the #dev channel if you'd like to work on this.

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Update from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 via F-Droid

Podcast feeds are not syncing from the website. Out of the 20+ I have, only 1 or 2 show up. Refreshing does not fix it

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: Samsung Galaxy Flip 3 5G
• OS: Android 12
• App Version 4.3.1

Additional context Attempted to uninstall and reinstall a previous version to confirm updating caused the issue.

It would be great to add an option to share a single episode.

It could be offered in two locations:

• the ellipsis menu in the episode list
• and the ellipsis menu in the player view.

Maybe you should add an optional function so that you can have new, unwatched videos automatically added to a playlist, then removed when watched.

Or somehow, have an optional “not yet listened to/new” folder, even if it’s only stored locally.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I often find myself trying to pull to refresh on an individual podcast. This doesn't work, so I have to back out to the main Podcasts screen and pull to refresh there. I'm often not sure if the data I'm looking at is the most up to date, so I have a habit of refreshing to check for new episodes.

Describe the solution you'd like Pull down to refresh action when looking at a specific podcast instead of only on the main Podcasts screen.

Describe alternatives you've considered While I have a habit of refreshing pages to check for new data, I wouldn't have to do this if I felt confident the data I'm looking at is current. Maybe an alternative solution would be adding a last refreshed <1 second ago stamp on the page would let me know the data is current without needing to check by refreshing.

Currently tapping a podverse.fm link within a show description will open in a web browser instead of in the app. These links should be handled like deep links instead.

I generally like having dividers in list views, but @comradekingu doesn't like them. I'm undecided but open to removing them. Maybe no dividers would be a cleaner UX. If we make the change then I'd like to make the change to all screens at the same time.

Related to: https://github.com/podverse/podverse-rn/pull/1582#issuecomment-1374665667

Describe the bug Should open a webpage, but instead lands the user back in the app.

To Reproduce

1. Open More → About Click "Gary Johnson" Expected behavior Expected it to open a GitHub profile, like the others.

Screenshots

Smartphone (please complete the following information): Latest F-Droid build

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

Describe the bug The "Delete after playback finishes" setting does not appear to be working. Episode finishes playing and green check appears, but episode is not deleted.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to More->Settings->Downloads
2. Enable Delete after playback finishes setting
3. Play episode that is already downloaded to completion

Expected behavior Episode download should be deleted after it is fully played.

Screenshots

Smartphone

• Device: Google Pixel 5
• OS: Android 13
• App Version 4.10.5 Build 5160

Describe the bug I experienced multiple visual issues on the "Sign up" screen on my Android device:

1. once opening the keyboard the form gets cut of and scrollable on a position that does not match the keyboard. I noticed the same on login as well.
2. The field to verify your password is scrollable in it self by a few pixels up and down
3. Clicking the Submit button only triggered the form to be submitted when I clicked directly on the text, not on the full with of the button

To Reproduce Just go to the "Sign up" screen on the android app and do as described above.

Screenshots

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: Samsung Galaxy S21 FE
• OS: Android 13
• App Version 4.10.4 Build 5159