Android client for Software Engineering Daily

Home Page: https://softwareengineeringdaily.github.io/

Ruby 0.47% Kotlin 99.53%

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SEDaily-Android

A player for the Software Engineering Daily Podcast

Getting Started

The app has 2 build types: debug and release with minor differences between both builds. Stetho for example is only enabled for debug builds. And Timber to log warnings and errors as Crashlytics non-fatal crashes in release builds.

We also use different app icons for debug and release builds and you can keep both builds on your device and run them side by side.

The app is 100% Kotlin and we think it is better to keep it this way.

We use Koin which is a lightweight dependency injection framework to manage all dependencies. And Kotlin Coroutines for asynchronous work. We also use Kotlin Coroutines with Room and Retrofit.

Cloning the Project

$ git clone https://github.com/SoftwareEngineeringDaily/SEDaily-Android.git
$ cd SEDaily-Android

And then compile the project with Gradle using

./gradlew build

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Libraries Used

Foundation - Components for core system capabilities, and Kotlin extensions.
- AppCompat - Degrade gracefully on older versions of Android.
- Android KTX - Write more concise, idiomatic Kotlin code and helper functions for easy integration with coroutines.
- exoplayer to manage the media playback.
Architecture - A collection of libraries that help design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
- Lifecycles - Create a UI that automatically responds to lifecycle events.
- LiveData - Build data objects that notify views when the underlying data changes.
- Navigation - Handle everything needed for in-app navigation.
- Room - Access app's SQLite database with in-app objects and compile-time checks.
- ViewModel - Store UI-related data that isn't destroyed on app rotations.
Third party
- Glide for image loading.
- Epoxy for building complex screens in a RecyclerView.
- Koin a lightweight dependency injection framework to manage all dependencies.
- Retrofit a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
- Timber to log warnings and errors as Crashlytics non-fatal crashes in release builds.
- Kotlin Coroutines for managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks.

Upcoming features

Interested in seeing a particular feature implemented in this app? Please open a new issue with a feature proposal.

Contributing

Checkout CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

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software-engineering-daily-android's Issues

Cannot use lock screen to fast forward 30 seconds

Fixes to comments

upvote
reply button in nested comments (same experience as on desktop)
ability to edit/delete comments

Cannot terminate episode audio player

Open related episode on Playback system notification click

Add pull to refresh support to bookmarks screen

Cast support

Hey there 👋

It would be great if I could choose to connect to my Chromecast or Google Home mini to stream my audio, like Stitcher and other apps allow.

Add support for Chrome Custom Tabs

Implement Algolia

Migrate to a progressive webapp

View only downloaded episodes

Proposal: View only downloaded episodes

Summary

As a user who has previously downloaded episodes via the episode view, I want to be able to view a filtered list of only episodes I have downloaded, so that I can catch up on episodes when I am offline/on the train/in the car etc.

Rationale

Mobile users will regularly use their devices to listen to podcasts when in transit with either no Wifi/mobile signal or patchy reception
The download feature is useful, but limited in it's usage unless you can find the episode you previously downloaded again
Mobile storage space is limited. Allowing large audio files to be downloaded without any means of auditing and cleaning up the listened/unwanted episodes may result in users uninstalling the app in frustration

Scope

This is related to #28 but a separate request. Having downloaded items added to the "saved" list is useful - but that list may be a superset of downloaded and non-downloaded episodes.

Important Notes

Open Questions

Should Downloaded be a filter applied on the Saved view or a separate view entirely?
Could management of downloaded episodes be done through a Settings section?
Should file size be shown to help with manual cleanup?

App should keep track of how far the user has made it through each different episode, so that it is possible to switch between episodes without losing place

Ability upvote/downvote comments and re-rank them

Ability to tag users

requires SoftwareEngineeringDaily/software-engineering-daily-api#298

Add support for doing an action after successful login

For example when the user tries to login to vote or bookmark an episode, the would log them in and tries to do the action instantly.

Cannot use bluetooth headset to fast forward 30 seconds

Login's ToggleButton inverted

When the user comes to login page, the button's text is inverted. So, instead of text be No account yet? Create one in the LoginPage, it's showing in the RegisterPage.

Downloaded episodes should be marked as "Saved" (user should be able to unsave them like normal)

Create notifications tab

When listening to an episode, if I switch to another app or close the app, the audio file I was playing before should reopen

As seen here, the app knows I have been listening

In current implementation the audio does not reopen when I close then reopen

Download progress bar on Android should be an animation on the download button

how use custom_layou in playerView ?

when use custom_layout for exo player with button view with the same id in exo_playeback_controller_view file, for example exo_play, exo_position,exo_ffwd and etc, and set custom_layout in PlayerView with controller_layout_id="@layout/custom_layout", it's enough or we must doing other work to working button in custom_layou and connected to exo plyer?

Logo for your project

hello, I want to contribute to this project making a new logo for him, so if you agree we can start anytime.
is free and no compromises.

Set up CODEOWNERS file

Create a CODEOWNERS file to automatically request reviewers on PRs

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