Thanks everyone for the feedback. It looks like everyone implements the scrubber more or less the same so I think that is definitely a good starting point. The way the voice dream reader allows you to adjust the forward and back interval is super cool!
Regards, Robert On May 22, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Keith mentioned Voice Dreamreader among a couple of others. I was going to > suggest it as well because I think their implementation is very smart. In > Voice Dreamreader if, for example, I am listening to an audio book, I have a > navigation control and flicking up or down let's me switch between 15 > seconds, 30 seconds and 60 seconds as well as chapter. So I select by what > unit I want to jump forward or back and then I just swipe to the left once > which puts me back on the Play/Pause button and I can now just use the same > swipe up or swipe down gesture to jump forward or back by the interval I set. > I guess in the case of AgoGo instead of chapter you could have Episode or > whatever you want to call it and of course some time intervals. > > Voice Dreamreader furthermore has a progress indicator which shows the > percentage of where you are currently at. For example, if I have a chapter of > an audio book which is an hour long and I am 20 minutes into the chapter, the > indicator would tell me that I am at 33%. I can flick up or down and change > this by 5% or I can double tap and hold on the progress indicator and a > little numeric pad comes up and I can type in an exact percentage, say I want > to go back to 23% I just type 23 and then tap Done. > > Similarly the Play/Pause button in addition to letting me adjust the playback > position by my preset interval allows me to set the sleep timer. I double tap > and hold on it and up comes the sleep timer with some preset time periods > like 15, 30, 45 etc. minutes as well as an edit field where I could, if I > wanted, type in 27 to set it for 27 minutes. > > I think the way the Voice Dreamreader developer has done this is fantastic, > very efficient and I have not seen this much functionality anywhere else. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Robert Manson > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: AGoGo Question > > Hi guys, > Lead developer of AGOGO here. > I really appreciate you guys using AGOGO and helping me discover issues like > this! > > Play controls are definitely an area where we need to improve. I was looking > at how the voice over play controls work on Apple's Podcasts app and was > planning on using that as a model for future improvements. Is there another > app that you think has a better play controls experience? > > Thanks, > Robert > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:42:46 AM UTC-7, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hello, > > When listening to a show, pressing the now playing button brings up previous, > next, and play. Doing a double tap and hold on previous and next doesn't > fast forward and rewind though. You can only skip forward and back to other > shows. But, there is sort of a work around for this. From the lock screen, > double tapping and holding on the previous and next buttons found there will > indeed fast forward and rewind through shows. Same thing if using the remote > on a pair of headphones. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 21, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There don't seem to be any controls such as forward/rewind or jumping ahead > > or back by a particular time interval. 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