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AntennaPod

New year, new release! In version 3.6 our code contributors added:
🧭 Bottom navigation (enable it in Settings > User interface, and give us some feedback on the forum)
↕️ Change order of menu items
🚮 Trash all played episodes from Downloads screen
🏠 Neater Home screen with empty sections
📶 Remember choice when attempting downloads via mobile data

Now available on F-Droid and Google Play!
f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh
play.google.com/store/apps/det

f-droid.orgAntennaPod | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryEasy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player
@AntennaPod Thanks for your work and a happy new year!

@AntennaPod first impression: I like the bottom navigation a lot! 🚀

Only drawback so far, but maybe I miss something. On the sidebar I could filter my podcasts by tags which I use a lot to organize my podcasts. With the bottom navigation tags seems to be completely useless, at least I couldn't find a way to access them. It would be great if tags could be added to the bottom navigation to have easy access to some kind of filtered view of my podcast subscriptions.

@bjoern
Thanks for the feedback! We have an open enhancement request to display the tags at the top of the subscriptions screen, so they can easily be accessed. We hope that once that's implemented you'll have a good enough replacement for the tags in the side menu. (No concrete timeline at this point, though.)

@AntennaPod
By "be accessed" do you mean show a list of podcasts with that tag, or a list of episodes from podcasts with the tag? What I am missing with this workflow is being able to list episodes from all podcasts with a specific tag. Will this cover this use case? Or is something similar planned for the Episodes tab?

@AntennaPod

Awesome, thank you so much! 😍🤩🚀

* Used the „Trash all played episodes” rightaway and deleted 1400 files, freeing up probably 70% of my SD card. That was a feature I was apparently yearning for for a loong time 😃
* Bottom Navigation: Nice, but don't wanna miss the drawer, so doesn't work as replacement for me, switched back


#openSource #podcasts #HappyNewYear #Android

@Friesenkiwi
Thanks for the feedback! Why wouldn't you want to miss the drawer? Is there anything that you're missing, or did you notice a clear downside? The idea is to – in the long term – drop the side menu. We believe the bottom menu offers a more modern experience and keeping both would mean increased maintenance work.

@AntennaPod

Hm. Bottom Menu doesn't feel so „modern“ to me, more „retro“ (which isn't bad at all!)

In the drawer I have ALL the views listed, PLUS all subscribed podcasts in Folders/Tags in dynamic order and with counts. That's very powerful for me!

In the bottom button menu bar, I can only place 5 "Most Favorite" quick switch views, one of these 5 is currently taken by the overflow „More“ entry which feels clumsy.

So to me, the two navigations serve very different use cases and augment each other, rather than replace.

@AntennaPod happy new years. Many thanks for your work

@AntennaPod deleting all played episodes is a great feature - I was missing that!

@AntennaPod oh wow that's much better and faster.

@AntennaPod I see how the bottom navigation is great for many podcast listening flows, but I only use the queue and sometimes manage my podcasts. I would love an option to reduce the navigation to a floating button or top bar button, that opens one specific other page (subscriptions).

@jak2k @AntennaPod I think I have a somewhat similar usage pattern. The reduced bottom navigation works kinda great though

@AntennaPod I like new navigation option from bottom ! Adopted !