FocusPodcast looks and feels very much like an AntennaPod fork but there’s no mention of it anywhere (?)
https://f-droid.org/packages/allen.town.focus.podcast/ or https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast
is it written from scratch?
There are some interesting similarities in the code and the project structure. Example:
- https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast/blob/main/model/src/main/java/allen/town/podcast/model/feed/EmbeddedChapterImage.java
- https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/blame/develop/model/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/model/feed/EmbeddedChapterImage.java
This comment suggests it is a fork: https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast/issues/1#issuecomment-2208289756
But otherwise i can’t find it written explicitly anywhere.
I know nothing about it but I’d just use antennapod as they are obviously the ones who will fix anything first.
https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast/issues/1#issuecomment-2208289756
Commenter says it’s a fork of antennapod like podcini is. I’ve tried podcini but wasn’t fond of the interface changes and went back to antennapod. Wish the github page would list what makes focus different from antennapod.
i was trying podcini too for those podcasts that block antennapod➜orbot connections. podcini’s glitches and the skip forward button that’s lacking from the lock screen notification made me search some other alternative
focus works better than podcini but antenna is still the best
From what I can see on the F-Droid description, Focus connects to iTunes, presumably in addition to the same places Antenna does, for podcast search indexing
I’m out of the loop, what happened to antennapod?
Nothing, some people just dislike the slow pace of its development or some design decisions and fork it (and in the process remove or break less used functionality, like Podcini can’t read any feeds on my old Android 7 phone).
