Podcini is really great! It modernizes the Antennapod codebase (we wouldnt believe but that is pretty outdated!) and makes it more efficient.
Differing from the forked project, this project is purely Kotlin based, relies on the most recent dependencies, and most importantly has migrated the media player to androidx.media3, and added mechanism of AudioOffloadMode which is supposed to be kind to device battery. Efficiencies are also sought on running the app. App build is also upgraded to target Android 14.
After some hiccups at the beginning, it is now in a very good state!
The only thing I want from AntennaPod is the ability to automatically delete episodes that are x days old. My storage eventually becomes so full that I have to uninstall the app completely and reinstall because I’m not about to manually go and delete them all…
E: I finally figured this out. Go to download --> automatic download --> Set “episode cache” to whatever and then “episode cleanup” to “not favorited”.
This is ridiculously unintuitive and probably should be the default settings…