anytime_podcast_player

Anytime Podcast Player

This is the official repository for Anytime Podcast Player - the simple and easy to use Podcast playing app for Android & iOS, built with Dart & Flutter.

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Getting Started

Anytime is currently at v1.4.x and is built against Flutter 3.27.4+. View the project to see what is currently being worked on.

The official website can be found at https://anytimeplayer.app

Testers

If you would like to help test Anytime please click the image below to head over to the Play Store, or Amazon App Store. You can download the current stable release or sign up to the Beta channel and help test current developments.

     

I would really appreciate all feedback - positive and negative - as it both helps improve Anytime and prioritise new features. You can reach me at hello@anytimeplayer.app.

Flutter Version Compatibility

Due to a significant accessibility bug on iOS for Flutter versions after 3.27.4, and the need to run a much later version of Flutter on Android for the 16KB alignment support, I have had to create a seprate branch for iOS. To make maintaining both simpler, I intend to keep the overall code as compatible with Flutter 3.27.4 as possible until the bug is fixed; therefore, you'll notice the analyser complaining about deprecated values. Please ignore these for now.

Building from source

If you do not already have the Flutter SDK installed, follow the instructions from the Flutter site here.

Fetch the latest from master:

git clone https://github.com/amugofjava/anytime_podcast_player.git

From the anytime_podcast_player directory fetch the dependencies:

flutter packages get

Then either run:

flutter run

Or build:

flutter build apk

Search Engines

Anytime can search for podcasts via iTunes and PodcastIndex. To use PodcastIndex, first create an account at https://podcastindex.org. This will generate the required key and secret. To enable searching with PodcastIndex in AnyTime, pass the key and secret as runtime arguments:

flutter run --dart-define=PINDEX_KEY=mykey --dart-define=PINDEX_SECRET=mysecret

If running from Android Studio, add the following to the command line arguments section:

-t lib/main.dart --dart-define=PINDEX_KEY=mykey --dart-define=PINDEX_SECRET=mysecret

Ensure there are is only a single space between each argument. I have found that an additional space between any of the arguments will prevent them from being passed into Flutter correctly.

Open with Anytime links

Anytime supports deep linking from websites, allowing you to open a podcast within Anytime from a web url. To open a feed within Anytime, you create a link to the Anytime website passing in the URL of the feed you wish to open. For example: to load a feed in Anytime from www.example.com you would use the following link:

https://anytimeplayer.app/subscribe?url=www.example.com/myfeed.xml

Built With

Anytime makes use of several amazing packages available on pub.dev. Below is a list of the packages that are heavily used within the application.

• Flutter - SDK.
• Sembast - NoSQL persistent store.
• RxDart - adds additional capabilities to Dart Streams and StreamControllers.
• Audio Service - Provides background support for audio playback.
• Podcast Search - Provides podcast search and parsing.

Architecture

Anytime takes a layered approach:

• UI - The UI presented to the users. Currently this is mobile, but could be extended to web and/or desktop in the future.
• BLoC - Handles the state for the UI. Communication between the UI and BLoC is entirely via Sinks and Streams.
• Services - Interacts with the API and Repository to provide data handling routines to the BLoCs and other services.
• API - Interacts with the iTunes API (via a package) to fetch and parse podcast data.
• Repository - Provides persistent storage.

Supporting

Anytime is free and open source software. If you would like to help support the development of Anytime, please consider donating a tea. Anytime is fuelled by caffeine! Please checkout the GitHub sponsors link or my ko-fi page.

Contributing

If you have an issue or discover a bug, please raise a GitHub issue. Pull requests are also welcome. Full details can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.

You can help to translate the app on Weblate

See TRANSLATION.md for details.

Have a question?

If you wish to reach out to me directly you can find me at hello@anytimeplayer.app.

License

Anytime is released under a BSD-Style License. See the LICENSE file for further details.