boxlore

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Open-source podcast client with dynamic color extraction from cover art, variable-speed playback with pitch correction, live transcripts, and video podcast support. Uses SQLite FTS5 for offline search plus cloud vector embeddings for semantic recommendations.

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About this app

boxlore is a modern, open-source podcast client built from the ground up to showcase Jetpack Compose's full styling and interactive potential.

- Dynamic Accent Extraction: Intercepts album cover artwork, resolves visually dominant colors via the Android Palette API, boosts saturation (min 40%), and bounds lightness (25%–55%) for clean, rich ambient gradients. - Performance Optimizations: Utilizes deferred rendering of heavy below-the-fold list components during tab slides to preserve a locked 60fps refresh rate on navigation. - Vector Search & Recommendations: Combines a local SQLite FTS5 index for fast offline queries with a Qdrant Cloud vector embedding space to serve semantic recommendations.

✨ Feature Grid

- Home Feed 🏠 Highlights & Capabilities: - Mixtape Curation: Dynamic, personalized listening queues. - Deferred Composition: Ultra-smooth 60fps transitions. - Curated Time Blocks: Adaptive choices matching the time of day.

- Player 🎵 Highlights & Capabilities: - Dynamic Ambient Glow: Real-time HSL color extraction from cover art. - Variable Speed: 0.5x to 3x with pitch correction. - Buffered Wavy Loader: Circular wavy loader for loading states.

- Search & Explore 🔍 Highlights & Capabilities: - Personalized "For You": Interest-based recommendations. - Edge Spelling Checker: Real-time correction on Cloudflare Edge. - Hybrid Querying: Fast SQLite + Podcast Index API.

- Podcasting 2.0 🎬 Highlights & Capabilities: - Live Transcripts: Synced reading with jump-to-time audio seeking. - Seekbar Chapters: Clickable chapter notches. - 16:9 Video Podcasts: Orientation-locked video layouts.

- Library & Offline ⬇️ Highlights & Capabilities: - Collapsible Downloads: Organized list, multi-select operations. - Smart Downloads: Automated background download purging.

🌐 Data Sources

This app aggregates data from multiple public sources to provide a unified podcast experience:

- Podcast Index API Data Provided: Global catalog of podcasts, episodes, and search results

- Apple Podcast Charts Data Provided: Daily scraped trending feeds via GitHub Actions

📄 License

GNU General Public License v3.0

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What's new

v0.0.24Sep 2, 2026

Added
Added regression coverage for unsubscribe attempts while podcast data is still loading. (#1009) Added an alternate compact playback widget with Next and seek-forward controls. (#1010) Regression tests covering normalized, whitespace, and case variants of briefing market (#1008)
Changed
Improved playback metadata sizing, New Episodes title wrapping, widget picker previews, and idle states. (#1010) Redesigned the artwork sharing sheet and refined Story and square share-card composition. (#1011) Core model module documentation updated to describe briefing-market behavior (#1008)
Fixed
Made playback progress persistence service-authoritative and sequence-safe, preventing stale UI or lifecycle writes from restoring old resume positions and ensuring restored player progress is available immediately. (#1012) Prevented delayed Podcast Info loads from undoing an unsubscribe by re-reading live subscription state before applying page data and preserving subscription fields during delayed feed results. (#1009) Briefing market handling now preserves explicit global market before storefront canonicalization (#1008)