Fountain 1.1.6 - New Audio APIs, Performance Upgrades & Nested Navigation

With this update we wanted to strengthen the foundations and ensure that playback functionality is solid before rolling out some exciting new features and user experience improvements in the coming weeks.

New Audio APIs and Performance Upgrades

If you’ve been experiencing issues with playback on Fountain recently, there’s a good chance that they will be resolved in version 1.1.6. You can find an exhaustive list of issues that have been addressed below.

Queue

• Episodes in queue being skipped and marked as played

• Played episodes being added to queue

Playback

• Audio won't play when offline on Android

• App crashes during playback when device is locked

• Playback position not being saved

• Android Auto source error

Player

• Lag when scrubbing through podcasts or music on player

• Unable to go previous track when playing album or playlist

• Mini player not showing chapter artwork and chapter title

Social

• Unable to share clips as videos

• Issues saving playlists

• Gray screen when copying and pasting a link into a comment

• Improved offline support for episode pages

• Clip duration incorrect on show and episode pages

Payments

• Timeout error when boosting

• Unable to boost pending live streams

• Value time splits not working

Podcasters

• Unable to manage splits for a claimed podcast

• Claim podcast option missing from show page menu

Navigation

• Botton nav bar missing on certain pages

Settings

• Show settings missing from show page when accessed via search

Just as a reminder, you can share feedback with us or submit a feature request via the main menu in the app, or by emailing hello@fountain.fm. We really appreciate your input and aim to get back to you within 48 hours.

Nested Navigation

Previously the bottom nav bar was only visible on primary screens. This caused some navigational headaches once you tapped through to a nested screen - particularly if you were multiple levels deep - and required a lot of back button bashing.

In version 1.1.6 we pushed an update so that the bottom nav now visible across most screens in the app. If you’ve tapped on a comment in the home feed, then a profile, then some activity on their profile page, you can now easily go back to where you started by tapping the home icon in the bottom nav.

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If you want to help test new features out before they get released, or if you want to share feedback or send a feature request, you can join Fountain Beta on Telegram. All iOS and Android users welcome. Thank you to all the beta testers who have helped us get this update ready for release.