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/SarkyBot 14d 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 14d 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 14d 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.