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Show HN: Spreaker Podcast Radio – Podcast Listening Reinvented

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Re: Show HN: Spreaker Podcast Radio – Podcast Listening Reinvented

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Post by roccozanni »

We're thrilled to announce this huge update of our podcast listening application. The app has been rewritten from the ground up to provide the best podcast listening experience on Android, applying Material Design in its purest form, focusing on realtime data syncing and offline listening experience. When we started working on this app 7 months ago, we wanted to learn from all the mistakes we made on the previous versions, leveraging the best possible tools and technologies even if sometimes this meant throwing away previous assumptions, knowledge, and push ourselves out of the comfort zone.

Here some tech details that we'd like to share:

- functional reactive programming http://reactivex.io/

- networking with OkHttp by Square http://square.github.io/okhttp/

- image loading with Glide by Bump Technologies https://github.com/bumptech/glide

- audio streaming playback with Exoplayer by Google https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer

- view injection with Butterknife by Jake Wharton http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/

- dependency injection with Dagger2 by Google http://google.github.io/dagger/

A big thanks to @brigitadaisy for the huge effort she made in designing this app, @DrAL3X for helping me on Android development, @pracucci for providing totally new and super fast apis, and to all the @spreaker team for the support in those months of hard work.

Re: Show HN: Spreaker Podcast Radio – Podcast Listening Reinvented

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Post by _kyran »

roccozanni wrote: post #2

We're thrilled to announce this huge update of our podcast listening application. The app has been rewritten from the ground up to provide the best podcast listening experience on Android, applying Material Design in its purest form, focusing on realtime data syncing and offline listening experience. When we started working on this app 7 months ago, we wanted to learn from all the mistakes we made on the previous ver…

| the best podcast listening experience on Android

That's a big claim. Not to discount your work, but why should someone use your app over Pocket Casts (which I believe to currently have the best Android app).

Re: Show HN: Spreaker Podcast Radio – Podcast Listening Reinvented

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Post by acjohnson55 »

_kyran wrote: post #6
roccozanni wrote: post #2

We're thrilled to announce this huge update of our podcast listening application. The app has been rewritten from the ground up to provide the best podcast listening experience on Android, applying Material Design in its purest form, focusing on realtime data syncing and offline listening experience. When we started working on this app 7 months ago, we wanted to learn from all the mistakes we made on the previous ver…

| the best podcast listening experience on Android That's a big claim. Not to discount your work, but why should someone use your app over Pocket Casts (which I believe to currently have the best Android app).

I haven't tried that app, but it would have to be pretty awesome to pry me away from Podcast Addict. The latter isn't the prettiest app on the world, but it gives me a ridiculous amount of control over the listening experience.

Re: Show HN: Spreaker Podcast Radio – Podcast Listening Reinvented

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Post by SyneRyder »

_kyran wrote: post #6
roccozanni wrote: post #2

We're thrilled to announce this huge update of our podcast listening application. The app has been rewritten from the ground up to provide the best podcast listening experience on Android, applying Material Design in its purest form, focusing on realtime data syncing and offline listening experience. When we started working on this app 7 months ago, we wanted to learn from all the mistakes we made on the previous ver…

| the best podcast listening experience on Android That's a big claim. Not to discount your work, but why should someone use your app over Pocket Casts (which I believe to currently have the best Android app).

I'd like to hear the pitch vs Pocket Casts too, but I think there's definitely room for someone to improve over Pocket Casts. I bought Pocket Casts and ended up never using it. I went back to an old iPhone with Castro, which I really love.

Re: Show HN: Spreaker Podcast Radio – Podcast Listening Reinvented

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Post by the_bask »

_kyran wrote: post #6
roccozanni wrote: post #2

We're thrilled to announce this huge update of our podcast listening application. The app has been rewritten from the ground up to provide the best podcast listening experience on Android, applying Material Design in its purest form, focusing on realtime data syncing and offline listening experience. When we started working on this app 7 months ago, we wanted to learn from all the mistakes we made on the previous ver…

| the best podcast listening experience on Android That's a big claim. Not to discount your work, but why should someone use your app over Pocket Casts (which I believe to currently have the best Android app).

To me it comes down to a few things:

- Spreaker is "streaming first": it's way easier to just play something new that you want to listen to, without going through the Subscribe->my podcasts->download(or stream) flow. You can also download podcasts, but this appears to be a secondary mode of consumption.

- There is great emphasis around curation: there are both curated lists (they somewhat look like the Play Store discovery experience) and channels, which are good when you don't want to pick something specific to listen to but you just want to play something.

All things considered, it's a very different experience from most of the podcasting apps out there that come from the original iTunes-like subscribe experience. It might be better or worse, and this is very personal. But I believe this is moving in a different direction.

Re: Show HN: Spreaker Podcast Radio – Podcast Listening Reinvented

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Post by DanBC »

the_bask wrote: post #3

Finally a podcast app that includes some sort of curation; it feels weird to have to get most of the recommendations elsewhere and then having to look for a specific show.

Your account appears to have been dead for a very long time. The few comments you've made are good so I vouched for them. You may want to email mods to see what tripped their filters?

(Although here you say "finally", yet you've submitted 3 articles about spreaker about 2000 days ago.)

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