Non-game Android Apps Recommendations Catch-All

ilduce620 wrote:
jollyeskimo wrote:

Downloading older episodes: returning in an update today (link)

Widget: coming soon(tm) (link)

Good things...but I got that update and I still can't figure out how to see old episodes.

Anyone else figure this out?

Go to the podcast grid view, click a podcast, and you should see the list of episodes.

MannishBoy wrote:

Go to the podcast grid view, click a podcast, and you should see the list of episodes.

Thanks!

Some of the episodes show up, but not many. Like, I see yesterday's Giant Bombcast, but nothing before that.

It's a start, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't show as many as before...

ilduce620 wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Go to the podcast grid view, click a podcast, and you should see the list of episodes.

Thanks!

Some of the episodes show up, but not many. Like, I see yesterday's Giant Bombcast, but nothing before that.

It's a start, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't show as many as before...

I see tons of Bombcasts.

MannishBoy wrote:

I see tons of Bombcasts.

Well...what the heck...

The Pocket Casts update pushed me to buy it instead of dealing with the mounting annoyances of Listen and Antenna Pod.

MannishBoy wrote:
ilduce620 wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Go to the podcast grid view, click a podcast, and you should see the list of episodes.

Thanks!

Some of the episodes show up, but not many. Like, I see yesterday's Giant Bombcast, but nothing before that.

It's a start, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't show as many as before...

I see tons of Bombcasts.

I just got another update this morning that finally provided me with a "Show Older Episodes" button under each podcast subscription. It appears to "think" for a long time, though, so I think it's still a bit buggy (perhaps it's just my HTC One X that's still running ICS...dammit...).

But, the button's there, finally! Progress!

Pocket Cast just got a widget. But it's big. I was hoping for a 1x1.

BreechLoad wrote:

Pocket Cast just got a widget. But it's big. I was hoping for a 1x1.

What the hell is up with their update schedule?! Is there a reason they released 4.0 a few days ago, and then are releasing the important features for it in the subsequent days? I guess I understand bug fixes coming out as a slow trickle, but if they were intending on releasing the "access to old episodes" update, followed by the widget update, why not just wait a few days until all that was ready before sending 4.0 out the door?

Don't get me wrong: I'm not complaining. They're all good features. I just wonder if there is some strategy that they and other developers use when rolling out important features to their app. Just seems odd to me.

Maybe they're just responding to consumer demand in a rapid fashion?

What's the use of a 1x1 widget? It's always seemed kind of useless to me.

LarryC wrote:

What's the use of a 1x1 widget? It's always seemed kind of useless to me.

I have one that's a toggle for my volume/vibrate/silence; it works great at that size.

TigerBill wrote:
LarryC wrote:

What's the use of a 1x1 widget? It's always seemed kind of useless to me.

I have one that's a toggle for my volume/vibrate/silence; it works great at that size.

I use them for toggles, too. Brightness, volume, airplane mode, desk clock mode, etc.

The Quick Settings panel in 4.2 as modified by CyanogenMod is pretty much the best thing ever for all of that.

CannibalCrowley wrote:

Maybe they're just responding to consumer demand in a rapid fashion?

That, and making jokes in patch notes.

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jollyeskimo wrote:
CannibalCrowley wrote:

Maybe they're just responding to consumer demand in a rapid fashion?

That, and making jokes in patch notes.

I've always had good luck contacting the devs of Pocket Casts. They helped me when I was trying to import my Doggcatcher OPML file the other day (although their suggestions didn't work until I played around a bit more).

Still haven't switched back, but I put it on the Nexus 7 to test before switching the phone back from Doggcatcher.

LarryC wrote:

What's the use of a 1x1 widget? It's always seemed kind of useless to me.

The one I use for BeyondBod, just just a play/pause button. The headset on my bionic cuts out a lot for me, so I frequently have to get things playing again.

I miss when the wifi widget actually turned the wifi on and off.

You know, instead of just bringing up the wifi menu and making me tap yet another thing to turn the wifi on or off.

I'm still feeling pretty angry about this stupid 4.0 update.

Thin_J wrote:

I miss when the wifi widget actually turned the wifi on and off.

You know, instead of just bringing up the wifi menu and making me tap yet another thing to turn the wifi on or off.

I'm still feeling pretty angry about this stupid 4.0 update.

4.2.2 allows for short presses to bring up the wifi menu and long presses to toggle wifi on/off, which feels the exact opposite of how it should be set up: a single press should toggle it, and a long press should bring up the menu.
how often are you adding new wifi hotspots? I have two at home and one at work.

Hmm, my 4.1.1 ROM has a toggle bar in the notification pulldown that's an instant on/off. I guess that's an add-on.

Mine does, too. In fact, the stock Trebuchet launcher on 4.2 Jellybean should have the wifi toggle in the pull down notifications.

MannishBoy wrote:

I've always had good luck contacting the devs of Pocket Casts. They helped me when I was trying to import my Doggcatcher OPML file the other day (although their suggestions didn't work until I played around a bit more).

They responded to a Tweet I sent them a year ago asking when lock screen controls would show up. They seem like really good folks!

I'm finding Pocket Cast 4.0 missing a few features that's preventing me from using it again day to day. For instance, I have some podcasts I only listen to when I've run through my other stuff or am just in the mood, and there don't seem to be any podcast specific settings that would allow me just to keep a couple of episodes. Minor stuff like that.

Overall, I like what I see, but haven't decided to switch back quite yet.

For people that have, is the stability better than the old Pocket Casts? That's the reason I switched away to begin with, it was always crashing.

LarryC wrote:

Mine does, too. In fact, the stock Trebuchet launcher on 4.2 Jellybean should have the wifi toggle in the pull down notifications.

Just to clarify, Trebuchet is CyanogenMod's stock launcher, not the stock Android launcher. The notifications tray is separate from the launcher, those are OS level.

I have a wifi toggle in the pulldown thing too, but I have to tap over to "quick settings" to get to it. Which is badly named because it's still slower than using the widget on my homescreen used to be.

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This is the pull down menu on my Note 2. The Wifi toggle is clearly visible in the upper left hand corner of the screen. There are additional toggles on the battery widget, of course, but they're mostly redundant.

I can appreciate a Wifi toggle on the home screen, but having on the pull down menu is a must so I can get to it even when I'm in an active app or two.

As clarified, this should be basic to Jellybean. I'm using Apex Launcher in this pic. My Nexus is on CM10.

Your screenshot is 100% Samsung modifications of Android.

One of my favorite features of CM 10.1 is that you can now swipe down from the right (or left, your choice) one-third of the notifications bar, and it will pull down the Quick Settings panel. Swipe down from the other two-thirds of the bar, and you're pulling down the notifications tray. Before they added that in, I would have totally agreed.

On a stock "tablet" 4.2 UI, the notifications tray and quick settings panel are split right/left.

On a stock "phone" 4.2 UI, the quick settings panel is a two-finger pull down.

Unfortunately, the CM 10 Nexus is my wife's so I didn't get to use it much after installing it, but the wifi toggle is still on a pull-down menu. In that sense, it has no material difference with the Note 2 configuration, except that it might be better because of context sensitive pull-downs.

Closing the loop on a previous conversation regarding email apps: I managed to find a "Conversation" view in the stock email app so I've stuck with that. It's still not as graceful as I would like (they don't collapse very well) but it works.

"The Da Vinci Code" book is free from the Google play store right now.