0.04 Dev Journal

Summary

Overall a lot of cleanup and got to a functional state of playing episodes. Most basic end to end subscribe->get->play

• Picker for the notes application side of things

  • This allows picking between the dev and public stream environments

    • Needed this because I left myself in the dev env at the start of last week

    • Case switch statement for this. Toggles the API path

• New structure for the podcast app

  • Outer:

    • Overall application state

    • SceneDelegate

    • AppDelegate

    • PodcastState

  • Extensions:

    • Have these extensions to encode URLs properly.

    • Remove HTML from the JSON response that I get from the API.

    • And then networking helpers is kind of this thing where, at least it lets me, download this image kind of cleanly and I can just call this.

      • I don't know if this is the right way to do things. I don't think so

  • Persistent Layer (Core Data):

    • Local storage & persistent state management

    • Needs a lightweight data management layer on top

    • PersistentPodcast

      • Can convert from Podcast or to it for UI

    • PersistentEpisode

      • Can convert from Episode or to it for UI

  • Models

    • Decode JSON Response and use it in UI

    • Now everything is conforming to Codable to use JSONDecoder()

      • This is quite nice

    • These are Episode and Podcast

  • Internal

    • Raw JSON that I got from the response so I don't have to hit the API as much.

    • Something that I definitely need to integrate but I haven't haven't done yet.

  • Views

    • Podcast

      • PodcastSearchView

        • Does the heavy lifting

        • Decodes JSON and fetches images async

          • May need to use a DataTaskPublisher in the future

      • PodcastSubscriptionView

        • Display current subs -> get to episodes

      • PodcastListItemView

        • Perhaps once list item created fetch image? Probably not

        • On subscribe write to the DB with UIImage Data

    • Episode

      • PodcastEpisodesView

        • Get episodes for a certain podcast

        • Can fetch from API

        • First gets local DB data

        • Refresh button in navbar to get latest podcasts

        • Worried about performance from all the DB queries

      • EpisodeListItemView

        • Play and pause buttons for a podcast and starts playing

      • PodcastInboxView

    • Other

      • ContentView

        • Minor modification to add NowPlaying

      • NowPlaying

        • Capture podcast that is playing and control it anywhere

• Bugs:

  • Multiple running ticks when playing/pausing podcasts

  • Create multiple AVSessions, should reuse.

  • No caching

  • CoreData subscribe is all messed up, bad state management, just refactor this

  • Relationships not fully managed yet

    • not loading images for episodes

  • sortDescriptors

• Next:

  • Begin integration into the main notes app.

    • Either I will integrate it there or do some interprocess communication

    • Then all of that will go out to server, maybe it will record completely independently of each other to the server.

      • I don't know

      • I think they should be sharing some kind of context I don't always want it to go out to the server.

    • I don't know if this will be one app or separate apps I haven't decided yet. So these are all things to experiment with, I probably will do both because I can mostly just copy and paste.

  • I might be using closure for the back end

  • I, ideally would like run once and I can always push updates to it.

    • I also would like it to be able to people to add their own API's in kind of a thing however you want to add handlers in. That would be great.

  • This week was fixing all the mistakes I made last week, and making the code way easier to navigate and update, because it was a real pain to work with before it's still kind of a pain, but for me I can understand it in its current state. And I removed a lot of dependencies where I have to update, everything everywhere that still exists, and that's what I'm going to try to abstract away in the future.

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