3Speak Mobile App - WORK IN PROGRESS - Play Podcast & Videos offline

Hello 3Speak & Hive Community members,

With this post, I'll talk about the development progress I am making on this new feature "OFFLINE USAGE".

My Previous Posts about data saving

Offline Usage

Now, offline usage is equally important.
You use the internet to maximum when you've wifi, download the videos you wish to play later.
Just so you know, I'm aware of this need & acknowledge the feedback given by the community members.

offline gif

Development details

Just for your information, we're using Flutter SDK with Dart Programming language to build mobile application.
Everything I do is completely open source & available for community to use.
You can find source code available here - https://github.com/spknetwork/Android-app

Package info

We're using flutter_downloader package for offline usage.
That's a plugin for creating and managing download tasks.
Fortunately, it supports both iOS and Android.
So far it is working as expected on Android.
Even after following necessary steps for adding iOS Support, we've not yet achieved it.

What steps did I follow to enabled offline support on iOS?

Background modes

We've enabled background modes & in that we've enabled Background Fetch & Remote Notifications as illustrated below.

background modes

SQLite3

We've also added SQLite3 to keep track of downloaded files as instructed by flutter_downloader package.

sqlite3

App Transport Security

Some of the podcast may be on HTTP. So, we need to disable ATS. We've also added following to disable ATS in Info.plist

        <key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
        <dict>
            <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>

Stuck?

stuck

Yep. It seems like we're stuck here.
Even after implementing all necessary steps for implementing downloader, we're not able to save data offline.
I'm working on fixing it & I believe that with your well wishes, I'll be able to make it working soon.

What do you think?

What do you think about these offline feature?
Do you think we need one?
Did you encounter any other bugs when trying app? Please share.

How to download the latest 3Speak Mobile App App?

Download latest version of the app to get the latest features of the app
iOS Users - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/3speak/id1614771373
Android users - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.threespeak.app

Any other suggestions for 3Speak App?

Do you have any suggestion / Feedback / comment, please do share.
I will take a note of it & work on it whenever I get chance.

Who am I?

I'm a Hive Witness
3Speak App Developer
I also contributed to mobile-app for HiveAuth
Founder of HiveCurators Community - @hive-185924/@hivecurators

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