Antennapod: Support for "Subscribe on Android"

[dalb8]

http://www.subscribeonandroid.com/developers

"To provide simple one-click subscribe links for all Android podcast applications to utilize. "

[mfietz]

Already had a discussion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/antennapod/subscribe|sort:relevance/antennapod/1tTWf5DINoc/OFDuKkplEAAJ

I have honestly not once see any podcast use this...

[dalb8]

fair enough. The wisdom podcast uses it.

[Cj-Malone]

Why is "Subscribe on Android" a thing? I can understand "Subscribe on iOS" as they don't have a proper system for applications handling mime types, but Android applications can register an activity with application/rss+xml and application/atom+xml and then the system will open the app automatically.

It should probably be supported though...

[orionlee]

As a data point, I just came across a site supporting "Subscribe on Android"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
The same site also support straight RSS, so functionally there is no loss. But end user could easily first hit the Subscribe on Android button, and are stuck there with no support.

[ByteHamster]

Looks like the service is still not used frequently. Additionally, there do not seem to be many users who need the feature. Closing this issue to clean up our huge list of issues and make it easier to maintain.

[ByteHamster]

I see more and more podcasts using this, even though linking to the rss file would work the same on Android. We should probably support this thing :/