Pocket Casts for Wear OS actively being developed

Pocket Casts supplied a watch shopper again within the Android Wear period and is now actively engaged on a Wear OS app.

We can monitor improvement as a result of Pocket Casts open-sourced its cellular shoppers final October. A mission concern, from at the moment, on Github covers the “Initial Release of Wear OS Watch App.” The Automattic-owned app is open to contributors, with discussions on Pocket Casts for Wear OS beginning late final yr.

For the preliminary launch, we are going to deal with the watch app functioning independently of the cellphone. The skill to manage Pocket Casts on the cellphone will probably be added after the preliminary (if we now have time, some minimal management of the cellphone app could also be added to the preliminary launch).

Pocket Casts is “largely looking to replicate the functionality from Pocket Casts’ iOS watch app to start.” The Apple Watch shopper has been round for a while now, and helps downloads as a premium “Pocket Casts Plus” functionality.

The Wear OS app is working to supply that very same independence. Initial performance appears to incorporate a Now Playing display screen, looking, and downloads.

Looking on the present panorama, there’s solely Spotify and a handful of smaller shoppers. YouTube Music will presumably replace its Wear OS app with podcast performance as soon as that initiative launches. Wear OS 3 at the moment is house to quite a lot of streaming apps and podcasts are a pure extension.

More on Wear OS:

• Google Play requiring watch apps to be up to date for Wear OS 3 by August
• Xiaomi could also be making ready a brand new Wear OS 3 smartwatch
• Google Wallet for Wear OS is now accessible in over 60 nations
• Pocket Casts permits you to customise Android 13’s media participant, provides per-app language assist

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