A Modern Podcast Player for Mobile Platform

Since podcasting started, the field has grown slowly and steadily, eventually becoming a major trend in making content for social media. As the world becomes more hectic, the podcast format has gained immense popularity. Audio content enables multitasking among listeners. The fact that the listener may control playback is one of the most tempting parts of downloading podcast episodes. Particularly while listening to interview podcasts, it is much more convenient to be able to choose the speed and to fast-forward or rewind. Because it is a cross-platform mobile application built with Flutter, the podcast player is available on both Android and iOS. With advanced technology, you may search for podcasts, subscribe to them, view podcast charts, stream and download episodes, and play podcasts in the background. It is created with Flutter and the Dart programming language. The Application Programming Interface (API) communicates with the iTunes API (via a package) in order to retrieve and parse podcast data. Multiple technologies, including Flutter SDK Dart programming language, Sembast -NoSQL Database, API - iTunes and Podcast Index, RxDart, and Podcast Search, were utilised in order to construct this platform for sharing experiences. We have collaborated to produce a clean and user-friendly app that will appeal to a broad audience, ranging from children who can listen to stories to adults and the elderly who can listen to any interesting genre based on their preferences and use all the app's features by interacting with its simple user interface (UI).

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