3Speak Mobile App - Play Podcast Offline - Feature is ready to be shipped

Hello 3Speak & Hive Community members,

With this post, I would like to share that offline podcast player is now ready.
In my previous post, I explained that I was stuck & I was not able to make further progress. All the obstacles are resolved & we've download & offline feature ready.

What was the issue?

• There were many issues in implementation for supporting offline player.
• Not being able to save data properly, not being able to locate file, not being able to load file locally - these are issues which I faced.
• Let's talk about each of them one by one, How I got it over & achieved download + Offline play feature.

Fixing Download issues

Issue #1: Not being able to find where to download data

• As discussed in our last post, we're using flutter_downloader plugin. It is popular & widely used.
• On Android, App was able to download data but for iOS it simply failed.
• So, I started digging into documentation & their sample code.
• On their github sample code repository, I found following snippet which resolved the issue for download-directory-location. On iOS, it's called Documents directory.

• Yep. This is how we fixed it on iOS.

And fixed other issues.

• Yes, I fixed other issues to downloading, saving locally, loading from local space etc.
• And I am not going to add more boring content by adding more technical details.
• Instead, let's talk about how to use download & offline player.

Using Offline Player

Hit that download button.

Go to a podcast episode you like & hit the download button.

Stop it if you wish to.

• Once you start downloading, keep an eye on the loading progress
• You can stop it if you wish to by hitting the stop button as indicated below.

Blue Tick = Download complete

• Once download is complete, you can see the Blue Tick.
• Downloaded episodes can be played from offline section.

Offline Section

• Open 3Speak > Podcast App
• Open Quick Access menu
• Tap on "Downloaded Podcast Episodes"

Play Offline content

• Now, tap on any of the offline content & play it.

Save Data when using 3Speak Mobile App

• This post talk about how to save data by disabling autoplay
• And this post talks about saving mobile data by changing different settings

What do you think?

• What do you think about these offline feature?
• Do you think we need one?
• Did you encounter any other bugs when trying app? Please share.
• Next, I am immediately gonna ship this feature on AppStore & PlayStore.

How to download the latest 3Speak Mobile App App?

• Download latest version of the app to get the latest features of the app
• iOS Users - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/3speak/id1614771373
• Android users - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.threespeak.app

Any other suggestions for 3Speak App?

• Do you have any suggestion / Feedback / comment, please do share.
• I will take a note of it & work on it whenever I get chance.

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• I also contributed to mobile-app for HiveAuth
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