Adding the ability to listen to a Podcast

[marbetschar]

Problem

Its possible to subscribe to Podcasts using an RSS Feed. For example 60-Second Science: http://rss.sciam.com/sciam/60secsciencepodcast

It would be great to be able to listen to a Podcast directly from Communique.

Proposal

Show audio controls to listen to the Podcast directly from within Communique if the currently selected article contains audio data.

Prior Art

• Nextcloud News already provides the possibility to listen to Podcasts: https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android
• elementary Music can be a good example on how audio controls work: https://github.com/elementary/music

[Suzie97]

@marbetschar, Thank you so much for you suggestion.

But I want Communique to be a reading app. I want it to do one thing and do it well. A good podcast app should have podcast oriented features like speed control, trim silence, volume booster etc.

The elementary team has also written about this on their blog and their hig.

AppCenter already has a podcast app Leopod and Vocal has also seen some recent development.

I'm closing the issue for now, feel free to reopen it if you have more points to share.