Pocket Casts - Podcast Player (Android Automotive) 7.101-rc-4

New Features
Update search results screen
(
#4583
)
Integrate new combined search API
(
#4604
)
Updates
Improved login experience on WearOS
(
#4631
)
Bring back legacy Google login on WearOS 14 and below
(
#4633
)
Improve search results
(
#4637
)
Bug Fixes
Improve performance of bulk Up Next operations
(
#4641
)

Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful podcast platform, an app by listeners, for listeners.

Install

If you're just looking to install Pocket Casts Android, you can find it on

Google Play

. If you're a developer wanting to contribute, read on.

Build Instructions

Make sure you've installed

Android Studio

.

In Android Studio, open the project from the local repository.

Go to Tools → Device Manager and create an emulated device.

Go to Run → Edit Configurations… and create an Android App configuration.

Select the module "pocketcasts-android.app.main".

Run.

Build and Test

To build, install, and test the project from the command line:

$ ./gradlew :app:assembleDebugProd # assemble the debug .apk $ ./gradlew :app:installDebugProd # install the debug .apk to a connected device $ ./gradlew :app:testDebugUnitTest # assemble, install and run unit tests $ ./gradlew :app:connectedDebugAndroidTest # assemble, install and run Android tests

Directory structure

. ├── app # Mobile app ├── automotive # Automotive app ├── modules │ ├── features │ │ ├── account # Create account and sign in pages. │ │ ├── cartheme # Automotive resources needed for the account pages. │ │ ├── discover # Discover section. │ │ ├── endofyear # End of year stats. │ │ ├── filters # Filters section. │ │ ├── navigation # Navigation utilities. │ │ ├── player # Full screen player │ │ ├── podcasts # Podcasts section. │ │ ├── profile # Profile section. │ │ ├── search # Search pages. │ │ ├── settings # Settings pages. │ │ └── taskerplugin # Plugin for integration with Tasker app. │ └── services │ ├── analytics # Analytics code. │ ├── compose # Shared Compose code. │ ├── images # Image resources. │ ├── localization # Contains the strings in English and localized strings from GlotPress. │ ├── model # The database logic and entities. Also transfer objects required which aren't stored in the database. │ ├── preferences # Stores the user preferences and configuration settings. │ ├── repositories # Provides accessing to the data from the 'servers' and 'model' modules. │ ├── servers # Provides the network calls to the servers. The UI layer should access these through the 'repositories' module. │ ├── ui # Shared UI code for the 'compose' and 'views' modules. This includes the themes. │ ├── utils # Utility classes. │ └── views # Shred Only the old views code.

The hierarchy of the modules in the project are reflected in

this diagram

.

Contributing

Read our

Contributing Guide

to learn about reporting issues, contributing code, and more ways to contribute.

Documentation

Coding Style

- guidelines and validation and auto-formatting tools

Pull Request Guidelines

- branch naming and how to write good pull requests

Translations

- how the app gets translated and how to contribute translations

Signing a Release

To build a

signed

release, add these lines to your local.properties file

signingKeyStoreFile=/Users/username/git/secret.keystore
signingKeyStorePassword=
signingKeyAlias=
signingKeyPassword=