Could you make the app work with Google assistant and android auto? That would be amazing for those of us with the hibreak or a gsi on our kompakt. The android auto version would be less stimulating in dark mode since no car screen is e ink.
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@davidray i assume this isnt in the plans atm
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It is not in my current plans because I was heavily focused on de-googled phones from the get-go. If you want to open an issue on the Github page, I can put it in my backlog to maybe get to it in the future if possible.
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Is there any news on this yet?
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The app is amazing and I use it on a daily basis. Just a tiny little bug that I found:
When you "scroll through downloads, the lowest podcast is hidden by the “Following-Downloads-Settings”-bar. This is not the case in Following or Settings but in Downloads, so if I go down, I can still not see the information of the lowest episode from downloads.
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@marko I was able to implement this on the music app I’m building and I think it’s been working pretty well. I will start porting the functionality to CalmCast this week.
@hanswilli I was able to reproduce this so I should be able to have a fix in the next release hopefully this week.
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That sounds great. Thank you for your quick reply. I’m really looking forward to it 
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Hi @davidray, have you decided on a direction yet for playlist/arranging episode order? I’d love to make CalmCast my only podcast app, but at present the episode order in the Downloads tab follows a logic that confuses me. Let’s say I download 4 episodes from a podcast series, hoping to listen to them in order. (BTW, these are well-ordered, indexed podcasts.) In Pocket Casts, they’ll add to my Up Next list in episode order. On CalmCast, they appear in the Downloads tab in a (seemingly) random order. If it were possible to re-order episodes in listening order, that would be great. Alternatively, selecting episodes and adding to a playlist would be another possibility. At present, the experience requires foraging for the episode you want among one’s downloads each time. This one shortcoming is why I find myself using Pocket Casts again.
Many thanks.
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Hey, as of now I’m sticking with natural order (i.e. whatever order the podcast gives me the episodes in.) I might at a minimum give the ability to flip the direction, soon.
For downloads, they should be in order by published date as of the official release. If you’re on the latest and you don’t see that happening, that would be a bug. From my experience so far it seems to be correct.
I’ve learned a lot while building my music app so I will bring some of that experience over to CalmCast very soon with features like playlist and state management so it remembers which episode you were listening to when re-opening the app from a cold start.
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I’m really looking forward to it.
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For me that is definitely not the case, so there seems to be a bug here (as you can see in the Episode numbers in my Screenshot)
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Are you on the 1.1.0 release? If you use Mind Apps it will tell you the version. I don’t currently expose this in the app anywhere.
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Interesting. My dates are formatted different than yours and in correct order. Here’s a screenshot on my device.
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Danke für den Podcast Tip 
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ah so the proböem might come up because I am using a german version which formats the dates diffwrently.
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I should be able to handle this easily with a date parser. I’ll get this into my next update.
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I noticed this a while ago and fixed it, but didn’t get a chance to properly test so I haven’t done a PR or raised a Github issue.
I think the issue is that publishDate wasn’t being properly parsed, so episodes were just sorting alphabetically (which means they sort by day name). Sorting by publishDateMillis seemed to solve it. Here’s the diff in case it’s helpful.
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Thanks for the input! I’ve applied your change. It will be included in the next release.
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Hey all, just published a new version:
This update addresses the following:
- Cold starts will now remember what was last playing
- Better lists ui so items aren’t hidden on scroll
- Better date formatting so downloads are correctly ordered by published date
UX updates
- Listening progress is now shown as text next to the episode runtime
- Download progress no longer bumps the list items, it replaces the sub text (pub date/runtime)
@marko I would love to hear your feedback on the cold start improvements and if they help your experience.
@hanswilli I hope this addresses your downloads issues, let me know.
This should show up in Mind Apps pretty soon.
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