A helper class for Windows Phone 8 podcast apps, and apps that want to send commands to WP8 podcast apps.

PodcastWP can be installed from NuGet:

Install-Package PodcastWP

The PodcastHelper class can send commands to Launch, Play, Pause or skip to the next or previous podcast app using this method:

PodcastHelper.CommandPodcastApp(PodcastCommand.Launch);

The PodcastHelper clas can also send commands to subscribe to a Podcast rss feed:

PodcastHelper.SubscribeToPodcast(new Uri("<rss feed url>"));

If you want to subscribe to a podcast without the PodcastHelper library you can also use the URI directly:

Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("wp-podcast://Subscribe/?feedUrl=<rss feed url>"));

The PodcastHelper will allow you to easily check a URL for the presence of a PodcastWP command.

Register for the custom URI scheme in your app's manifest file by adding this line in your manifest files tag.

<Protocol Name="wp-podcast" NavUriFragment="encodedLaunchUri=%s" TaskID="_default" />

In your UriMapper, you will have code similar to this:

if (PodcastHelper.HasPodcastUri(uri))
{
	var action = PodcastHelper.RetrievePodcastAction(uri);
	
	// Perform action in your app
	
	return new Uri("MainPage.xaml", UriKind.Relative);
}

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