This Podcast Player lets you search the Itunes store podcast library and play the episode of your chosing. You can also download podcasts to the device and play them without needed a network connection.

This project uses the following pods :

• Alamofire for networking calls and to download media files
• FeedKit to parse the RSS Feed
• SDWebImage for Image Caching

SearchBarController : Searches using the Itunes Api for its podcast library and displays the fetched podcasts, pushes to EpisodesController

EpisodesController: Displays a podcast's episodes list, allows the user to download episodes and to play them using the AudioPlayer

AudioPlayerView: plays the episode using AVKit The user can play, pause, forward, rewind and move to a specific time in the audio. the user can also adjust the volume. Dismisses back to the EpisodesController or DownloadsController

DownloadsController: Displays the users downloaded episodes that are saved locally to the device. Running the AudioPlayer from here allows the user to play an episode without a Network connection

Frameworks : CoreData - implemented in DatabaseHandler AVKit - implemented in AudioPlayerView

The user can search the itunes store podcast library. Selecting a podcast brings up its episode list. Selecting an episode will launch the audio Player . The user can also download a Podcast by swiping right on an episode.

On launch, the podcast episode automatically starts playing.

Here's the available controls for the audio player :

• Resume/Pause audio playback by tapping play/pause button
• Foward audio playback by 15 seconds by tapping the forward button
• Rewind audio playback by 15 seconds by tapping the rewind button
• Play at a specific time by dragging the top slider to the desired time
• Adjust Volume by dragging the bottom slider to the desired volume

the audio player can be minimized using the dismiss button at the top or with a swiping down gesture. Once minimized it can be popped back with a tap or swipe up gesture.

The user can access the downloaded podcast episode by selecting "Downloads" in the bottom tab. This action will display all the fully downloaded podcast episodes.

selecting an episode will display the audio player and will play the media file stored on the device - this part doesnt require a network connection.

This section is persistent and so are media files associated with the downloaded Podcasts

• Extract folder from file
• Run Podcast.xcworkspace

Xcode 14.2 Swift 5

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2021] [Mo Sersouri]

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