Podcini is really great! It modernizes the Antennapod codebase (we wouldnt believe but that is pretty outdated!) and makes it more efficient.

Differing from the forked project, this project is purely Kotlin based, relies on the most recent dependencies, and most importantly has migrated the media player to androidx.media3, and added mechanism of AudioOffloadMode which is supposed to be kind to device battery. Efficiencies are also sought on running the app. App build is also upgraded to target Android 14.

After some hiccups at the beginning, it is now in a very good state!

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    8 months ago

    I saw that but that just seems like their preference. I don’t feel anything in particular about the home page. It’s customizable too IIRC. I don’t know what the echo page is.

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      18 months ago

      Echo is the “you listened x hours to y” I think.

      I dont think thats needed, but all the updates to the codebase are totally.

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        28 months ago

        I don’t mind being able to see stats, either. I don’t mean to complain about this project; I fully support the author in modifying it to their preference. Just that I wouldn’t expect a “minimalist fork” out of this particular app. Regardless, it’s not unwelcome in any way!

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          28 months ago

          True, I went through a project once and it can be scary what EOL libraries and components it needs. But stripping out stuff was not needed.