Niall stands up and stretches his arms, body responding with a small yawn. “I hate to say it mate, but you might have to just ride this one out. Fake it till you make it, as I always say.” Niall is right. This whole ordeal may have started out as a simple excusable white.
Oct 15, 2019. GeorgeAvailable now for both apps. This update adds iOS 13 support, which includes support for Dark Mode, improves the in-list search experience and fixes a number of crashes and performance issues.
This is a minor maintenance release for the macOS app. See the for more details.More updates coming soon.Feb 5, 2019.
GeorgeAvailable now for both apps. This is a maintenance release that fixes a handful of bugs, crashes, and resolves a big memory leak while using CarPlay. Anyone experiencing crashing while using CarPlay was likely suffering from this issue.Both apps now remove the now playing episode from the player view if it is marked as played while paused.The iOS app now shows the last time a feed was refreshed in the navigation bar above its episode list. Tapping this area will trigger a refresh of the podcast's feed, similar to tapping on the podcast list's navigation bar.More updates coming soon, for real.May 5, 2018. GeorgeThis release is mostly a performance + bug fix release.
The iOS app should be noticeably more stable now. I was able to identify and fix a few really difficult to debug issues that would lead to random crashes, especially in the background. There are some general performance improvements as well as a couple changes to reduce memory consumption.Several issues with the download queue were also fixed. That includes an issue where deleting downloads wouldn't update the episode counts for the corresponding podcast, a row duplication issue when rearranging downloads, and a queue order issue when queueing multiple episodes for download at once. All very annoying issues, all fixed.I'm still working on the sync replacement, among other things, which is still going well and I hope to be done with that very soon. Hang in there, changes are on the way.Also, a surprising number of you ask how to provide additional financial support. Downcast has had a tip jar for quite a while now to let you do just that!
I haven't really promoted it because that's annoying, but I get enough inquiries that I feel it needs to be mentioned from time to time. You can find it in the app here: More tab ► Support Downcast. Mar 26, 2018. GeorgeVersion 2.9.30 is now available in the iOS & macOS App Stores.Feb 26, 2018.
GeorgeNot going to bother apologizing for the long delay in blog posts, apologies get old for everyone. Just gonna say what's imminent, whats coming, and what's coming a bit later.Oct 17, 2017. Georgev2.9.18 (iOS & macOS) has been submitted to the App Store for review. Assuming no arbitrary roadblocks are thrown in it's way, it should be available within the next two days.Oct 4, 2017.
GeorgeI never said I was fast. I really did intend to post updates more frequently, and I still do!
It's been another crazy couple of months for me, but I'm still hard at work on v3 and still shooting for around the end of the year for releasing it.Jul 24, 2017. GeorgeJust a quick note, as of today I'm officially full-time on Downcast. That means things will actually get done in a reasonable amount of time! That will include more frequent status updates, and hopefully a couple of minor bug fix updates for v2.9.x soon.Jun 11, 2017. GeorgeParsing feeds has always been one of the more unpleasant parts of Downcast's codebase. Much of that is to blame on the fact that podcast feeds, RSS & Atom, are XML based.
XML is incredibly powerful, but nearly all of that power is lost on simple podcast feeds. They could easily be expressed using JSON.Jun 10, 2017. GeorgeTime is a frustrating thing. There's never enough of it, it passes too quickly, too slowly, we have to waste it sleeping, there's daylight saving time, no one uses decimal time, etc. The last few years have been incredibly frustrating for me because of the lack of time I've had to devote to Downcast. I've been supplementing my income with contract work, then spending whatever time was left over, which hasn't been much, to work on Downcast. I also don't work well when I'm torn between multiple unrelated tasks, so the time I have had for Downcast has been distracted time at best.
That's been frustrating, depressing, stressful, you name it.May 24, 2017. GeorgeFirst things first, I want to apologize for the lack of updates, responsiveness, and general silence for the last several months. It has been a struggle recently trying to find the necessary time to devote to Downcast and its users. That said, I'm still working on finishing V3, and Downcast is not dead.Sep 12, 2016. GeorgeAs of version 2.9.17, Downcast for Mac can finally be controlled using an Apple keyboard's media keys. Since Apple still doesn't permit sandboxed apps to control the media keys, we have to do this with the help of a free 3rd party app called.
This app acts as a system wide controller for your media keys, passing media key press events to the appropriate application whether it's Downcast, Spotify, iTunes or some other app.Jul 9, 2016. GeorgeSorry for the long break, I've been busy working on the next major version of Downcast, v3.0. For the initial release of v3.0 my focus is modernizing the UI and underlying codebase changes that will reduce bugs, improve performance, and make adding features and making changes a far less time consuming process. Downcast has been playing catchup with iOS and macOS releases for a while now and v3.0 should help to break that cycle. After the initial release, the plan is to push out some other significant improvements as quickly as possible.Mar 24, 2016. GeorgeA number of syncing improvements are being introduced in v2.9.13. Performance and reliability are the focus.
Both the iOS and Mac apps are receiving the same treatment.Mar 7, 2016. GeorgeWhen an application makes a request for a web resource, it includes a user-agent string in that request to identify itself to the server. The server may use this for any number of reasons like serving up mobile vs desktop versions of websites, analytics, etc.Jan 21, 2016. GeorgeDowncast's CarPlay support is currently awaiting review now available in the App Store! This is an exciting addition for Downcast.
You've been asking for this for a long time and it's finally here.Jan 12, 2016. GeorgeApp Store reviews affect sales, no doubt. That's why so many apps have a nag screen begging for ratings. Downcast won't do that in the app since it's annoying, but it doesn't mean I don't want your positive review or 5-star rating!Jan 10, 2016.
GeorgeDowncast has always been one of the most inexpensive podcast clients available despite its long list of features. I’d like to keep it that way but it needs to generate more revenue in order to continue adding the features podcast listeners want and expand to other platforms.Jan 10, 2016. GeorgeDowncast had its ups and downs in 2015. I took over development & support at the beginning of 2015 and it has been a learning experience. An Apple Watch app was introduced and our iOS player UI was overhauled. The player UI change brought with it some painful bugs but now that the worst of them are resolved, Downcast is in a much better position to be improved going forward.
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