It does not account for terrain height or other physical circumstances, like the earth not really being sphere, but a potato.
The actual calculation is only an approximation. Also, please don’t look at the sun and wait for Instacast to switch the night mode setting exactly on time. After all, for the calculation of the sun angle, it doesn’t really matter if your 100 kilometres here or there. This way no actual sensor is fired at that time. This location is already stored by the phone when it is connected to a cell tower, so only already stored data is passed to the app. That’s why Instacast is only asking for your approximate location. Now you might say, that querying the location and triggering GPS and thus draining the battery only for switching user interface colors is wasteful, and you’re right.
Instead it asks for your broad location data and depending on your actual location on the planet, it calculates when the sun is setting or rising approximately. Instacast is not measuring the actual light in the room. So, I came up with what I think was a unique method at the time. I wanted Instacast to switch only 2 times a day, in the morning and in the evening. When I added this feature to Instacast, I wanted to go a different route. This method however can be very annoying in situations where it’s not light nor dark and often apps switch back and forth multiple times. A method I often see is using the ambient light sensor. Since there is no dedicated night-mode setting in iOS (Android may have that), app makers reside to all kinds of techniques to switch the mode between day and night automatically. With a Night-Mode or Dark-Mode feature however the color of the text and the background sort of becomes inverted and it’s much easier on the eye at night. Everything on the display just becomes more difficult to make out. Looking at a glaring smartphone display can be very jarring and you might have to turn down the display brightness. You use your phone in all kinds of situations day and night, and during the night your eyes are accustomed to less light. Even though many of its features are not unique, Instacast is a comprehensive and complete podcast app.Night-Mode or Dark-Mode has been a favorite feature to request by users for all kinds of apps. However, anyone who listens to podcasts every day and wants playlists should definitely consider buying it. This is an app for podcast power users and probably wouldn’t be worth the money for someone who listens to a podcast once in a while. Instacast even supports read later services, like Instapaper. There are options to adjust the playback speed, disable auto-lock, and even set an action for shaking the device. There are many settings that can be altered to fit a person’s tastes. I found this option to be very helpful since I already had many podcasts on my iPhone.
#INSTACAST ANDROID DOWNLOAD#
It’s possible to see what podcasts are already on the device and then to download episodes of them with Instacast. Instacast also interfaces well with podcasts that are on the device, but that haven’t been downloaded with the app itself. For instance, a smart playlist could automatically contain all recently played podcasts. The app even supports smart playlists that automatically populate the list according to a rule.
The app also automatically creates a playlist of unplayed, downloaded, and favorited podcasts. Instacast makes it easy to create, edit, and listen to a playlist. One major feature that I’m very happy is included in Instacast that is omitted from the Apple branded podcast app is playlists. Instacast will also automatically check for new episodes of podcasts that are subscribed to.
#INSTACAST ANDROID OFFLINE#
It’s possible to listen to episodes of a podcast within the app (stream it) and/or download them for offline listening. Also, every list has a filtering option for just video or just audio podcasts. There is a list of popular podcasts, and then many categories to browse. The browsing is very similar to the podcast section in iTunes. Like other podcast apps, Instacast makes it really easy to browse and subscribe to podcasts. However, anyone who listens to podcasts daily will find it very useful. It definitely trumps the Apple podcast app in many aspects, but it’s pretty pricey. Instacast is a very powerful and robust podcast app for podcast aficionados.
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