Hey hey, I'm on Android now. No more BB OS 5 killing my podcast buzz. So now that I've been using PT on Android for a week or two, here are my impressions / issues encountered / feature requests.
1. I watch a fair number of video podcasts, several from the TWiT network. Once issue I have is that I'm constantly moving to a different point in the podcast because I accidentally touch the screen and then the progress bar at a random spot. I'm not sure what the fix is, but it'd be nice to find a way to prevent that from happening accidentally. This phone is all screen, so it's hard to hold it without touching the screen sometimes.
2. If I start a video podcast while holding the phone in portrait mode, the video starts off odd. It seems like it is cropped and/or stretched oddly. I can fix the video by rotating.
3. I'm not sure I really want to watch a podcast in portrait form. Maybe just restrict it so it's always in landscape, and it would only switch when you've flipped 180 degrees around, instead of every 90. The TWiT app does this. I know this may not be best for all phones, so maybe this should be an option somewhere.
4. It'd be nice to be able to lock the screen orientation. The Kindle app does this right, with a little lock on the bottom right that you can toggle to keep it stuck in one orientation.
5. There's no need for the popup stating that there are no items playing. If nothing's displayed, I think that's enough.
6. On video playing, tap the screen. Click the pause button. The button doesn't change to the play icon unless you tap to disappear it and tap to bring it back. This doesn't seem to happen quite all the time, but most of the time.
7. Is there some reason why the video popup controls don't have both the fastforward/rewind "a little" and "a lot"? There's room for the buttons on my screen, maybe not on phones with smaller screens.
8. I'm disappointed that I can't let a video podcast go in the background while using the phone for other things. I enjoyed being able to check email, browse, use HoneyDew, etc. while listening to the audio portion of a video podcast on Blackberry. I thought I saw somewhere that you took this out for a stability issue? I'm hoping it can be put back in.
9. I've seen issues where it thinks a phone call is in progress for some time after it's completed, which prevents it from continuing to download. Does the OS prevent PT from downloading over WiFi while a call is in progress?
10. It'd be nice if car mode turned on when the OS is in car mode, automagically.
11. I'd prefer it if I could turn off showing video in car mode, but I assume that has to have #8 fixed to work.
So I hear there's a tiny human stealing all your time away from PT development, congrats!. Does she code yet?