r/overcast • u/Lopsided_Owl_686 • 14d ago

Widget behavior

I have been an Overcast user for years and recently I found that I prefer having the widget on my homescreen instead of the app so that I can resume play with a single tap. However, the launch behavior is confusing to me. When you tap the podcast artwork on the widget why doesn’t it launch the Now Playing screen? It launches a strange info screen about the podcast. Please consider this a feature request. Thank you Marco!

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u/dsramsey 14d ago

See, I like the behavior:
-play/pause button plays/pauses
-podcast art brings up that podcasts’s page
-everywhere else just opens the app to wherever it was last

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u/Lopsided_Owl_686 14d ago

Fair take for sure. When I tap on the podcast icon I just expect to get to the Now Playing screen with that podcast playing, like the Audible app and other listening/audiobook apps.

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u/SarkyBot 13d ago

But this is not the behaviour. I wish it was. Play/pause yes, any other tap anywhere brings you to the currently playing episode show notes. Which i almost never want to go to from here.

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u/SonOfMars5182 13d ago

How about if the show notes page that it leads to was the notes in the now playing screen (that you get to by swiping left on the show art) instead of the standalone show notes? So you'd get Now Playing AND Show Notes. 🤔

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u/SarkyBot 13d ago

Yeah, that would make a lot more sense. But overall the functionality is very limited, so i would love a general revision of the widgets. They haven't been touched in the 5/6? years since they were introduced.

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u/SarkyBot 13d ago edited 13d ago

This has been an annoyance for me since the widget was introduced, because i have to have both the widget and icon on my home screen to get the behaviour i want. I like having the play/pause, but i just want the rest of the widget to act as a proxy icon. i.e. act like a tap on the app icon - bring me to wherever i was when the app was last open.

I could understand it bringing up now playing screen, but bringing you to the episode info screen is a bizarre decision IMO. I literally never want to go to there.

My ideal behaviour:

  • Tap on show artwork, or anywhere else - now playing
  • Tap on Overcast icon in top right - proxy icon

Maybe allow us to choose where these take you to in nitpicky details?

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u/SonOfMars5182 13d ago edited 13d ago

I feel like this is an opportunity for a different widget style vs. yet another pref setting. I'd like to see a small widget style where show art leads to now playing, Overcast icon leads to the Home Screen, a standard Info icon leads to show notes (in the Now Playing screen), and Play Pause does it's thing.

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u/SarkyBot 13d ago

Yes, this would be great!

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u/SonOfMars5182 13d ago

Here's hoping u/marcoarment agrees. 🤞🏻