6.5.2

• replaced all url of http to https
• resolved the nasty issue of Youtube media not properly played in release app

6.5.1

• further improved behavior in video player, seamless switch among audio-only, window and fullscreen modes, and automatical switch to audio when exit
• fixed issue of OnlineFeed view not transition to FeedEpisodes view when subscribing a Youtube channel

6.5.0.1

• fixed release app being improperly stripped of classes by R8

6.5.0

• media3 upped to 1.4.1
• removed dependency of androidx.media
• minSDK bumped to 24 (Marshmallow no longer supported, sorry)
• in OnlineSearch view, info about subscriber counts (when available) are added to podcasts
• likely fixed video fragment crash due to: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fragment VideoEpisodeFragment
• improved behavior of toggling video view modes
• added setting in feed preferences to play audio only for video feeds
• added feature to truly handle Youtube channels
• Youtube channels can be searched in OnlineSearch view and browsed, played or subscribed in OnlineFeed view
• Youtube media are played within Podcini, in video pr audio modes
• in feed setting of Youtube channels, "Prefer streaming" and "Auto download" options are disabled
• limitations:
  • Youtube channels search currently only showing up to 20 results
  • A YouTube channel is only fetching up to 30 media
  • Youtube media can only be streamed (not downloadable for now)
  • video quality is set to lowest, audio quality is set to highest on wifi and lowest on mobile (not customizable now)
  • Youtube feed is not auto-downloadable

6.4.0

• PlaybackService is now a MediaLibraryService and also takes over many functionalities from PlaybackController
• PlaybackController is renamed to ServiceStatusHandler and is stripped to bare bones
• enabled Android Auto UI, currently playing episode and episodes in the active queue are shown in the Auto UI
• added code to handle case where keycode=-1 and keyEvent!=null, attempting to resolve the occasional issue of random start playing

6.3.7

• inlined some DB writes of Episodes in some routines
• enhanced DB writes in download routine, fixed a write error
• added a couple more Log.d statements in hope for tracking down the mysterious random playing
• Kotlin upped to 2.0.10

6.3.6

• upgraded gradle to 8.9 and Android Gradle Plugin to 8.5.2
• minor dependencies updates
• corrected the count of total episodes in History view
• corrected the count of selections in AllEpisodes, History views
• fixed "add selected to queue" in History, AllEpisodes views
• known issue: in History and AllEpisodes views, the play button on every episode is not convertible
• added history count in NavDrawer
• in adapters, made selectedItems type explicit (rather than of Any), either of Episode or of Feed
• explicitly revoked DB monitoring in episodes list views at exit
• fixed issue of IndexOutOfBoundsException when adding to an empty queue

6.3.5

• added more Log.d statements in hope for tracking down the mysterious random playing
• FeedSettings view is all in Jetpack Compose, FeedSettingsPreferenceFragment removed
• in FeedSettings, added "Auto add new to queue" (accessible when associated queue not set to "None")
  • when set, new episodes during refresh will be added to the associated queue, regardless of being downloaded
• use adaptive date formats (stripped time) in Subscriptions view

6.3.4

• fixed mis-behavior of setting associated queue to Active in FeedSettings
• items on dialog for "Auto delete episodes" are changed to checkbox
• playState Int variables have been put into enum PlayState
• corrected an error in incomplete reconsile
• fixed the nasty mis-behavior in Queues view when removing episodes
• updated feed in FeedInfo view when feed preferences change
• enhanced feed setting UI, added display of current queue preference
• added "prefer streaming over download" in feed setting. ruling along the global setting, streaming is preferred when either one is set to true
• added None in associated queue setting of any feed
  • if set, episodes in the feed are not automatically added to any queue, but are used as a natural queue for getting the next episode to play
  • the next episode is determined in such a way:
    • if the currently playing episode had been (manually) added to the active queue, then it's the next in queue
    • else if "prefer streaming" is set, it's the next unplayed episode in the feed episodes list based on the current sort order
    • else it's the next downloaded unplayed episode

6.3.3

• fixed crash when setting as Played/Unplayed in EpisodeInfo view
• various changes in writing to DB in write block
• Queue view is renamed to Queues view
• in Queues view, when opening/closing Bin, the queues spinner on ToolBar is toggled with a title
• added various Log.d statements in seeking to trace down the occasional random playing behavior