Alohacasts: your favorite podcasts on your wrist

Alohacasts is an app for playing podcasts on your Garmin watch. Made with Aloha. Go to https://alohacasts.org for info, FAQs or how to get started. Here's the short version: 1) Install the app, tap "Set Up" when prompted. 2) Selecting "sync" will trigger a Sign in (or create account) using the Garmin Connect app on your phone. 3) After this first sync you will see "Add episodes now?" which will open the web app where you add episodes. Then tap sync again. That's it. 4) If you sign up and add episodes first, that will save a step. Either way works. If your watch is not supported yet, or if you have ideas or feedback, please contact us. We're always looking for great ideas to improve the app.

v0.0.29 - Save episode position when archiving so that any subsequent restore starts as expected. - Multiple bugs squashed and other improvements. - Add support for MARQ® (Gen 2) Athlete. v0.0.28 - Work around Garmin issue that can cause "Media cache missing" errors. Luckily this is usually rare, but it's also very annoying when it happens. We now have a way to automatically handle this problem by re-mapping cached content. - Improve startup memory performance esp. for devices with less total memory (e.g., Forerunner® 170 Music, 245 Music, and others). - Various attempts at code beautification and other fixes and improvements. - Add support for Venu® X1. v0.0.27 - New setting, "Reset After Play" (default is off), for cases where we want to listen to the same content on a loop. - Update to Connect IQ 9.2.0. - Bug fixes esp. around initial authentication, and other improvements. - Add support for fēnix® E, and experimental support for Venu® 4 41mm & 45mm / D2™ Air X15 v0.0.26 - Improved clarity for error reporting by adding failure date / time for each occurrence. - Add specific handling for podcasts without images. - Bug fixes and other improvements. - Add support for fēnix® 6 Pro / 6 Sapphire / 6 Pro Solar / 6 Pro Dual Power / quatix® 6 v0.0.25 - Spring cleaning for bugs and memory usage. This was needed esp. for devices with older API levels. - Add support for fēnix® 7S / 7S Pro v0.0.24 - Some care and feeding for the "Play Options" menu: - The item named "Now Playing" during playback is now "Forward 15s", and either skips 15 seconds or archives the episode depending on how much time is remaining. This can be used during an activity for one tap access to episode position changes. - The menu also reacts to episode changes and current playing state if changed via bluetooth audio device (on some devices like the Forerunner® 245 Music, this should be used with caution). - Clean up the multiple "Back " and "Forward " options by using a Picker, which allows moving in either direction in a more flexible way. - Dynamically determine episode thumbnail image size to improve the experience on newer devices, where they were previously too small (new image sizes will appear after a sync). - Use device-based sizing for custom button icons to improve appearance especially for newer devices. - Add support for Forerunner® 170 Music, fēnix® 7X / tactix® 7 / quatix® 7X Solar / Enduro® 2. v0.0.23 - Bug fix Friday. - Add support for Forerunner® 945 LTE. v0.0.22 - Add error message when Media subsystem mysteriously fails to return previously cached content. - Add the ability, via the optional Play Options menu enabled in Settings, to Reset any episode's position and start playing that episode. - Show Playback Speed for an episode in Play Options menu. - Fixed a few pesky bugs and made some other improvements. - Add support for fēnix® 7 Pro, Forerunner® 255s Music. v0.0.21 - Change the "Background Sync" setting name to the more accurate "Post Activity Sync" and added a caution icon based on some kind feedback from our community. Mahalo! - Change behavior of Post Activity Sync: it now waits to sync for at least 5 minutes after an activity is finished to work around the observed Forerunner® 970 and fēnix® 8 issues. - Fixed a few pesky bugs and made some other improvements. - Add support for fēnix® 7 / quatix® 7. v0.0.20 - Add alternate way to pair Garmin device with any another computer using a code. - Add support for fēnix® 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm / MicroLED / quatix® 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm. v0.0.19 - Add additional network error reporting when problems happen very early in the sync process. - Add support for fēnix® 8 43mm. v0.0.18 - Add support for fēnix® 8 47mm / 51mm / tactix® 8 47mm / 51mm / quatix® 8 47mm / 51mm - Add fault tolerance around initial auth, background sync, image handling and other code-related care & feeding. v0.0.17 - Add support for Forerunner® 570, fēnix® 8 Solar 47mm. - Bug fixes and multiple cleanup items.