3Speak Mobile App - WORK IN PROGRESS - Play Podcast & Videos offline

Hello 3Speak & Hive Community members,

With this post, I'll talk about the development progress I am making on this new feature "OFFLINE USAGE".

My Previous Posts about data saving

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

Offline Usage

• Now, offline usage is equally important.
• You use the internet to maximum when you've wifi, download the videos you wish to play later.
• Just so you know, I'm aware of this need & acknowledge the feedback given by the community members.

Development details

• Just for your information, we're using Flutter SDK with Dart Programming language to build mobile application.
• Everything I do is completely open source & available for community to use.
• You can find source code available here - https://github.com/spknetwork/Android-app

Package info

• We're using flutter_downloader package for offline usage.
• That's a plugin for creating and managing download tasks.
• Fortunately, it supports both iOS and Android.
• So far it is working as expected on Android.
• Even after following necessary steps for adding iOS Support, we've not yet achieved it.

What steps did I follow to enabled offline support on iOS?

Background modes

We've enabled background modes & in that we've enabled Background Fetch & Remote Notifications as illustrated below.

SQLite3

We've also added SQLite3 to keep track of downloaded files as instructed by flutter_downloader package.

App Transport Security

Some of the podcast may be on HTTP. So, we need to disable ATS. We've also added following to disable ATS in Info.plist

        <key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
        <dict>
            <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>

Stuck?

• Yep. It seems like we're stuck here.
• Even after implementing all necessary steps for implementing downloader, we're not able to save data offline.
• I'm working on fixing it & I believe that with your well wishes, I'll be able to make it working soon.

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.

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.

Who am I?

• I'm a Hive Witness
• 3Speak App Developer
• I also contributed to mobile-app for HiveAuth
• Founder of HiveCurators Community - @hive-185924/@hivecurators

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About the SPK Network:

The SPK Network is a decentralised Web 3.0 protocol that rewards value creators and infrastructure providers appropriately and autonomously by distributing reward tokens so that every user, creator, and platform can earn rewards on a level playing field.

• Check out the SPK Network Light Paper: https://peakd.com/hive/@spknetwork/spk-network-light-paper
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