First of all - AWESOME APP !!!
The amount of functionality and configuration is incredible.
Reading here in the forum about all the suggestions as well as all the different configuration and personalization option - AMAZING - Respect for the work!

My suggestion:
Is it possible to add a "Tab Bar" ad the bottom of the UI on all the main screens?

The Tab Bar would contain the main menu points
* Home (Podcast)
* Radio
* Player
* Playlist
* Download
And would make the navigation between the different screens much easier.

Example:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/11/the-golden-rules-of-mobile-navigation-design/#tab-bar

Why add it:
1.) A phone with a big screen requires the use of a second hand to click the Menu icon in the top left corner - big gap/stretch.
2.) The user must click twice to switch to other main screens. The only possibility to have one click is by using the return button (not possible to go forward)

Implementation:
I would suggest adding the Tab Bar on to the bottom of the main pages (listed above).
This space is currently occupied by advertising and I think some people would nag that they cannot click buttons and always click the advertising banner.
A possible solution would be to enable this Tab bar after the user has bought the application. This way no one can complain to click the add-Banner instead of the tab bar and users have also a motivation to purchase the application for a more friendly UI.

For podcasts with long episodes (50-60 minutes), I only need to keep a few episodes on my phone, but for podcasts with shorter episodes (10-20 minutes) I would like more espisodes, so:

Be able to set an amount of time for each podcast (universal or different amount for different podcasts)

Then PA keeps either keeps the most recent X hours and deletes older ones (if user always wants, say, the latest news) OR PA waits to download new episodes until the total downloaded time drops below limit.

For example, if I am listening to a serialized podcast where you want to listen in chronological order, I am unlikely to want to download the latest episode if I still have 8 hours of old episodes to listen too.

Please consider cleaning up the UI. Or at least give the option to hide UI elements. Your app might just be the very best regarding functionality but it doesn't look all that great in my opinion. It is very busy to look at.

For example the refresh button could be replaced with pull-to-refresh as an option.

Let me remove it the indicator for video or audio episodes. I don't do video podcasts (Does anyone??). The same is true for the playlist. Let's please hide the video feed.

I don't need the date of the last released episode on the main feed page. I have feeds that are dead since 2 years. This info is not important. Let me hide that too.

The themes are too busy with the two colors per feed. The black amoled theme is the best looking because it is just one color, black. I'd like dark, grey and bright versions of that.

All icons seem a tad too big. I'm nitpicking now but it looks a bit off.

(Some of the stuff I said is only true for the "list view")

This is meant as honest feedback and I hope you take it as such. I know it's a lot and pretty harsh but I didn't want to make 10 posts or beat around the bush.

Thanks for your work, it's a great app.

Hello,

I see that you have had a number of requests for android auto jump forward/back functionality that were closed saying that the functionality was supported, or that it was not possible to implement.

I'm looking to move to this application from BeyondPod, which does support in android auto mode both episode skip/restart, as well as jump forward/back, and I believe that supporting both is not only quite possible, but valuable functionality.

Currently, you have the "..." menu in android auto that brings up the secondary menu, and has limited functionality. BeyondPod places the jump forward/back buttons on this secondary menu, and the episode skip/restart buttons on the primary menu.

Skipping tracks completely, as well as jumping forward/back are critical features for an audio playback application, and the current implemention is severely limted in allowing only one feature or the other to be active via the "Skip foward/rewind controls" flag.

Please take this functionality request under consideration,

Thanks!

Thanks to Google's backup systems, if my phone someday decides to go for a swim or the like, I know I will be able to recover almost all my data up to the crash. This app is the one major exception. In order to fix this, the backup system needs three improvements:

1.) The option to automatically back up my full data, rather than just the OPML file.
2.) The option to use cloud storage as a backup location, rather than just the device.
3.) The option to set an automatic backup at a regular interval, rather than only when the subscriptions change.

Thanks for all the work you do on the app, Xavier!