/Podfriend

Podfriend Podcast App

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

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Podfriend Podcast Player

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Podfriend is your friendly Podcast Player.

Mission

We want to provide a real open alternative to big apps like Spotify, where you can use seamlessly web, mobile and desktop to listen to your podcasts.

We support the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and we want to bring movies, chapters, locations, guests, interactive content and so much more to listeners in an open ecosystem that's not behind a walled garden.

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Installation

Clone the repo, run yarn

Web

Run the development build by using yarn dev-web and build for production using yarn build-web

Desktop

Run the development build by using yarn dev and package windows using yarn package-win and Mac using yarn package

iOS

Package using yarn build-android and then package it using the Android Studio

Android

Package using yarn build-android and then package it using the Android Studio

The code is not working for me

Please open an issue, there's probably a lot of things that needs to be fixed and streamlined for it to work across more devices than just my own Windows machine and Mac laptop :)

Why is the code so weird

The code grew from being a Desktop only podcast app, to including web and mobile. The mobile version started out as a React-Native solution, before moving to Cordova. This means that a lot of components are separated in 2 components, a logic component and a UI component, to reuse logic across mobile, web and desktop. This separation is not needed for the Cordova version, so I moved away from that pattern later, but because of time haven't had the chance to reimplement a lot of that logic.

To further make the code ugly, the project started out using React class components, before transitioning to functional components.