Notification Player instead of a Mini Player for 3Speak App - Podcast Feature

In my last post, https://peakd.com/hive-181335/@sagarkothari88/working-on-a-mini-player-for-podcasts-in-3speak-app, I talked about adding a Mini-Player within the application.

Why not mini player?

• After integrating the mini-player in the application, I realised following things.
• MiniPlayer takes space in each screen of the application.
• If application is locked or moved to the background, user can not access the controls of the audio player.

Notification based Player?

• What is a notification based player?
• Please refer to following screenshot.

• In the screenshot provided above, you can see that, now we have controls of the podcast player outside the app.
• User can control the podcast controls anytime they want by just swiping down from top edge of the screen
• It works very well for both iOS & Android.

How does it look on iOS?

• Following screenshots will give you idea how it looks
• This is how it looks within the app when you're playing a podcast.
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• This is how it looks when you switch to notification center / lock screen
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Whats the cost of implementing it?

• It took 3-4 days to integrate it.
• https://github.com/spknetwork/Android-App/pull/13/files
• 1400 lines of code was added.
• It wasn't an easy task & it was a team effort to achieve it.
• It required rigorous testing on both iOS & Android devices
• We are still testing & once we're confident, we'll roll it out soon for all users.

Which dependency?

• We integrated & achieved above result with the help of library called audio_service
• https://pub.dev/packages/audio_service

What do you think?

• Do you like to control the audio from notification center?
• Do you like this podcast player?
• Do you want to try it out?

Any other suggestions for 3Speak App?

• If you've not tried the 3Speak App's Podcast feature, I request you to download the app & give it a try.
• Do you have any suggestion / Feedback / comment, please do share.
• I will take a note of it & work on it whenever I get chance.

Did you Notice?

• Google has removed the 3Speak App from Google Play Store.
• I am working on generating a new Policy and put it on 3Speak.tv website.
• After that, I'll have to provide latest privacy policy URL to Google.
• Google will review it.
• If everything goes well, we'll have the app listed & visible again on the Google Play Store.

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