Building a Podcast Player: Implementing the PodcastIndex API with Kotlin and Retrofit

Introduction

Lately I have been looking into free api’s for searching podcasts and ran into PodcastIndex.org. A great resource/service that supports an open and independent podcasting ecosystem.
I signed up at podcastindex.org, read their api documentation, and downloaded their Postman collection, ready to get started and implement their api into my own app just to find out that it was slightly more challenging and requires a little bit more puzzling to get things up and…