This is a Development BETA build! It contains new features and bug fixes that we
are planning for the next public release.
We try to keep our BETA builds as stable as possible (this is
what we use daily in our personal devices). Keep in mind that not all features are
completely tested yet and some unexpected results or crashes may still occur!
This is BETA for the
Phone version of BeyondPod and will install on any Android
device running Android 2.1 or later. (BETA for the Honeycomb Tablet version is
available here).
What is new in this version
- All common menu items (like Settings, Help, Import/Export etc.) are now available on all screen under the "More..." menu option.
- "Popular Feeds and Podcasts" option in "Add Feed" dialog now uses a new User interface that makes it easier to discover popular audio/video podcasts for different categories
- Bug Fixes.
You can get the latest PUBLIC version from
Android Market.
To give the DEVELOPMENT beta a try, download the .apk file below directly to your
device. Once the file is downloaded, you can click on it in the download list to
install.
- 2.9.15
- Added a warning message before manually updating feeds in the feeds view.
- 2.9.14
- All footer toolbars are now permanently fixed to the bottom of the screen (they
now do not scroll with the window content).
- All secondary BeyondPod windows (add/edit feeds, categories, settings etc.) now
use the holographic theme on Ice Cream Sandwich devices.
- When BeyondPod is updating/downloading, on the Feeds Screen, the "Update" button
on the bottom toolbar now brings the Update and Download Queue screen.
- The option to toggle the visibility of BeyondPod episodes to Google Music player was moved
back from the (hidden) Advanced settings to the (public) Playlist and Widget settings.
- 2.9.13
- Couple of small cosmetic changes to categories view. Category names are now in
upper case to make it easier to differentiate the category screen from the other
screens. Added a footer to the categories list with direct links to "Add Category"
and "Reorder" to help novice users discover those features.
- Feeds view now also has a permanent footer with direct links to "Toggle Read Feeds",
"Update All Feeds" and "Add Feed" commands - again to help novice users find them
easier.
- Fix for an issue where scheduled updates were not restored after device restart
on Ice Cream Sandwich devices.
- Enabled hardware acceleration on the main BeyondPod window (only if the device
supports it)
- Updated the default set of sample feeds that appears after a fresh install.
- 2.9.12
- Multiple fixes to support Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. (Big thanks to everyone
who reported ICS issues. Your help and patience is appreciated very much.)
- Added support for extra high-density screens (like Galaxy Nexus).
- Added a better support for handling feeds that have document attachments (PDF,
DOC, XLS and PPT). They can now be downloaded and viewed using any document viewer
application that is installed on the device.
- Added (an experimental) feature that allows ignoring of the "Read" status of posts
that are synced with Goggle Reader. (This is useful if you often work with old posts
that Reader explicitly considers "Read"). The new setting is called "Ignore Reader
'Read' Status" and is located in BeyondPod's Advanced settings (accessible by a
long press on the version line in 'About BeyondPod' screen)
- Updated French, Finnish and Russian translations to the latest versions from Crowdin.
(Translators: If you find that anything is off, let me know - We had to manually
merge some Crowdin files and this could have affected the final result.)
- Added the final version of the main application icon. (Hopefully most people will
like it... it cost us lots of time and money)
- 2.9.10
- Workaround for (what seems to be a bug) in latest CynogenMod builds, causing player
Progress to not advance during playback.
- Fix for the issue preventing Video Playback on Nook Tablet
- Improved handling of Right-To-Left languages when the feed is synced with Google
Reader.
- Added a better handling for podcasts that omit or specify invalid mime type for
their episodes.
- 2.9.8
- BeyondPod has a new launcher icon (similar to the tablet version - headphones
with a coffee cup).
- On devices running Android 2.3 and later, you can now switch between posts in
the post view by swiping left or right.
- 2.9.7
- Several small UI changes to better support Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet
- 2.9.6
- Small changes to how videos are handled in the playlist. After the playback of
the current video episode completes, BeyondPod will now always play the next episode
regardless of the episode content type - it will switch automatically to the audio
or video player as required.
- Several fixes to the Drag and Drop logic used to rearrange the playlist and categories
- Fixes for a bug that occasionally would not show all latest feed posts in the
Feed Content view.
- Updated all translations to the latest versions.
- 2.9.5
- Improved the support for large (7" screen), pre-Honeycomb tablet devices (like
Amazon Kinde Fire and 7" Samsung Galaxy Tab, Vizio tablet etc.). If running on a
large screen device BeyondPod will now display the significant image and a short
summary of the post in the post view.
- Small "face lift" of the player screen for all devices.
- Added support for "Remote Control Metadata" on IceCream Sandwich devices. (This
allows BeyondPod to display the current album art and track information on some
Bluetooth car radios, as well as on the device lock screen.)
- 2.9.1
- Added a new setting that allows video playback to continue when the screen is
manually turned off. The new settings is called "Pause Video on Screen Off" (located
in the "Player settings"). For compatibility with existing behavior, the setting
is ON by default (video will be paused on screen off).
- Enhancements to Video Playlist handling. Added a new option that allows videos
to be automatically included in the playlist the same way audio episodes are (for
example when using a SmartPlay or when selecting them from "My Episodes View").
The setting is called "Allow Videos in Playlist" and is currently "off" by default.
You can turn it on in the "Playlist and Widget" settings. Keep in mind that when
this feature is enabled it will no longer be possible to play the audio portion
of videos in the audio player. (You can turn OFF "Pause Video on Screen Off" as
described above and still "listen" to the audio portion of the video).
- Video player now observes the "Lock Player in Car Mode" setting and can be locked
in "landscape" mode
- Updated Finnish and French translations. Added a (partial) Russian translation
- Bug Fixes
- 2.8.11
- Improvements to the BeyondPod's podcast search engine.
- 2.8.10
- New "Manual Episode Cleanup" feature makes it easier to delete existing episodes
in bulk. It allows you to manually multi-select episodes and also provides convenient
"automatic selection" modes ("Select Largest 3", "Select Oldest 3" and "Select All").
Episode cleanup can be accessed by using "Menu > Episode Cleanup" in the My Episodes
screen.
- When adding new feeds, and the feed URL is invalid, BeyondPod will now use more
sophisticated logic to try and guess the actual correct podcast URL. For many feeds,
this new logic allows you to use iTunes podcast web site (http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts)
on your PC or directly on the mobile device, find a podcast you like, enter the
iTunes specific feed URL in BeyondPod. BeyondPod will try to find the URL of the
original publisher and subscribe to it directly. Also for many feeds BeyondPod will
be able to guess the podcast URL if you enter the URL of the podcast's web site.
- 2.8.9
- Small "facelift" of the title and navigation bars to give them more contemporary
look.
- BeyondPod can now start also on “Categories” screen (in addition to “Feeds”, “My
Episodes” and “Player”)
- When BeyondPod updates a feed and the updated content happens to be invalid, the
"last known good" cache of the feed is now used until a valid copy is downloaded.
- BeyondPod now temporary "locks" the current episode in the player so that it is
not be automatically deleted during automatic “update and download” cleanup.
- Added a setting that controls if the current episode is kept in the playlist during
automatic SmaprtPlay rebuild at the end of download. The new setting is called "Keep
Current Episode" and is located in Playlist and Widget Settings. (The default is
to keep the current episode.)
- 2.8.8
- Added Final Versions of the French and Finnish translations.
- Sorting by "Played Portion" now sorts Played episodes at the bottom.
- Several small bug fixes.
- 2.8.6
- Complete versions of the French and Finnish translations. (If your device is set
to use French or Finnish language all BeyondPod menus and messages should now show
in the selected language)
- Several small bug fixes.
- 2.8.5
- If SmartPlay is set to be automatically rebuilt after episode download, the currently
playing episode now remains in the playlist as the first episode of the new playlist
- Fixed several small bugs in the way end-of-playlist is handled
- Refactored large portion of text content through the product to prepare it for
translation to different languages. (If you are interested in helping translate
BeyondPod to your language, please post on the support forum or send an e-mail to
support AT beyondpod.mobi).
- Bug fixes.
- 2.8.3
- Added a setting that allows publishing of BeyondPod's playlist to (most) external
audio players. The setting is "off" by default and is located in Settings >
Playlist and Widget Settings > Share Playlist.
- Small changes to Feed Content View to improve consistency. Now "Streamed" episodes
have the same Play/Delete buttons as "Downloaded" episodes. Also all local episodes
now show the episode total time (if available) and their "media type" icons (audio,
video or image) are slightly brighter to help distinguish them from the other episodes
in the feed.
- 2.8.2
- Several enhancements to the podcast download engine to better support downloading
episodes in order. In the feed settings, "Feed Podcast Episodes" drop down now has
additional options to Download/Stream Episodes in Order. When downloading/streaming
in order, BeyondPod will download selected number of episodes starting from the
oldest available and move towards the most recent. New episodes will be downloaded
only when you "make space" for them (by deleting some of the already downloaded
episodes for the feed). Also when set to download in order, the sort order of the
posts and episodes is automatically set to "oldest-first".
- Added a setting that will automatically rebuild the SmartPlaylist when new episodes
are downloaded. The setting is "off" by default and is located in Settings >
Playlist and Widget Settings > Auto Rebuild SmartPlay. (Generally SmartPlay
will be rebuilt immediately after a new episode is downloaded unless the player
is currently playing, in which case it will be rebuild after the end of the currently
playing episode.)
- Added more options for the number of episodes to play in the SmartPlay rules.
- Added a watchdog to monitor and prevent downloads for some rare cases where mobile
data can be used while "Use Mobile Data" is disabled in BeyondPod settings. (We
found that on some devices, the network connection type is not reported correctly
in the first couple of minutes after switching from WiFi to Mobile connection and
this can occasionally allow unintended data transfer to occur over mobile data connection.)
- BeyondPod now broadcasts a custom Android intent on each Play/Pause. This intent
enables third party applications (like widgets or tasker) to monitor BeyondPod's
Play/Pause state. More information is avaialble in
this Knowledge Base Article
- 2.8.1
- BeyondPod now listens for Bluetooth/Headset buttons regardless if it is currently
running.
- Widgets background color can now be set to "none" (no background).
- Small Improvements to the 'Lock Screen' functionality. Now BeyondPod's player
view will automatically open over the lock screen if BeyondPod is currently Playing.
- BeyondPod will now not execute any scheduled updates if "Background Data" is disabled
in the device Settings.
- Added more choices for selecting playback speed.
- Fix for an (occasionally) incorrect list view background color bug in Droid X.
- Increased the contrast of the music/video icons in the feeds view.
- When adding new feeds from search, you are now prompted for a catagory where to
add the feed.