gPodder 4.6.0 now available on BB10 and Playbook

The Qt-related issues that prevented us from doing a BB10 build on release day were fixed, so the Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry 10 builds of gPodder have been uploaded and are now available in Blackberry World.

gPodder 4.2 Feature Preview: Podcast Chapters

In the next release of gPodder 4, we're going to introduce support for Podlove Simple Chapters. Support for it has already landed in podcastparser 0.4.0, gpodder-core as well as gpodder-ui-qml and gpodder-sailfish, so here are two little demo videos of the new feature in action:

Blackberry 10 - Demo Video


Sailfish OS - Demo Video

gPodder 4.1.0 "Moombahcore" released

A new release of gPodder 4 is out, refining the UI of both the Sailfish OS and BB10 version and fixing some bugs along the way. The Sailfish OS version is available right now from the downloads page, the BB10 version is currently waiting for App World approval.

• Core
• Avoid race conditions in database writing
• Expose EQL query module for use in UIs
• QML UI - Common
• Support for filtering episode lists
• Show metadata in shownotes, website link
• About page with version information
• QML UI - Reference Implementation (BB10)
• New confirmation dialog
• Removed start page to be in line with Sailfish OS UI
• Toolbar with back button, pop-up menu
• Podcast list context menu (longpress)
• Clipboard (paste, copy, ...) support in text entry
• QML UI - Sailfish Silica UI (Sailfish OS)
• Update Git submodules (podcastparser from Git)

Download: gpodder-core-4.1.0.tar.gz
md5sum: ff1753aed597d5ff3a31dad64dc24473
sha1sum: a9277c4b5a40c4a337b4d684ac7e772c4bab8691

Download: gpodder-ui-qml-4.1.0.tar.gz
md5sum: 525d3ca512a9ff36d1080676d2349ca2
sha1sum: d31c86be234894380b6eabdd7eba9889230b34df

gPodder 4 now available for Blackberry 10

With gPodder 4 released last weekend, version 4.0.0 is now available for devices running Blackberry 10 from Blackberry World:

• gPodder 4 for Blackberry 10

The package will be updated with our usual update process, due to the BB World QA it could take a while for updates to appear.

gPodder 4 QML UI on on Blackberry 10

While for Sailfish OS, we do a native UI, the Blackberry 10 version of gPodder will at the moment not feature a native UI due to the native UI (Cascades) not being available for Qt 5 yet. Instead, we will use our own QML UI Reference Implementation, which shares common code with the Sailfish OS UI, and just uses plain QtQuick 2.0 elements and a custom UI Component set specifically for gPodder.

Powered by the Open Iconic icon set and Source Sans Pro, the QML Reference UI takes gPodder onto a new set of platforms, while still keeping some of the patterns we have established with the Harmattan (Nokia N9) version of gPodder:

• Playback color is "blue", play/pause right from the episode list, playback progress subtly displayed inside the episode item; currently-playing episode item highlighted in blue
• Download color is "green", download progress is displayed on the episode item
• Separate play page (now in the "blue" playback color scheme) with a progress bar, but also seek buttons for going 10 seconds and 1 minute in both directions - skip advertisements or talk segments easily, or skip back to rehearse
• Adding subscriptions by directly entering the feed URL, with some shortcuts (e.g. "fb:" for 
• feedburner-based URLs, etc...) or by using the gpodder.net search feature

All this runs nicely on any system where Python 3 and Qt 5 is available. For glue, we use PyOtherSide, which has recently got its first public 1.1.0 release, and is now well-documented over at readthedocs.org.

In summary, we're making good progress on gPodder 4 for both Sailfish OS and Blackberry 10. Once we've release gPodder 4 for those platforms, we might want to look into porting it to other platforms.