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Built with SwiftUI for iOS featuring a brutalist monochrome design with cutting-edge liquid glass effects.\n\n![TownTuner Screenshots](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5a5ccd8a-76a5-4bff-9ebc-d392e5a16a0e)\n\n## ✨ Key Features\n\n### 🎮 Core Experience\n- **Prestige System**: Complete all 360 episodes chronologically to earn prestige levels\n- **Smart Shuffle**: Randomize only unplayed episodes from current prestige level\n- **Sleep Timer**: Automatic fade-out for bedtime listening\n- **Episode Tracking**: 85% completion rule with persistent progress tracking\n\n### 🎨 Design \u0026 Animation\n- **Liquid Glass UI**: Ultra-thin material backgrounds showing content beneath\n- **Hero Transitions**: Smooth matched geometry animations between screens\n- **Brutalist Aesthetic**: Monochrome design with professional SF Symbol effects\n- **Sleep-Optimized**: Designed for half-asleep operation with thumb-first navigation\n\n### 🎵 Professional Audio\n- **Lock Screen Controls**: Full media 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glass effects\n- **Thumb-First Design**: All primary actions reachable with right thumb\n- **Information Hierarchy**: Episode number \u003e Date \u003e Comptroller\n- **Enhanced Animations**: Spring physics with glass morphing transitions\n\n## Technical Stack\n\n- **Platform**: iOS 18+ (Swift/SwiftUI)\n- **Glass Effects**: Custom liquid/ultra/morphing glass view extensions using SwiftUI materials\n- **Audio**: AVFoundation with background playback, lock screen controls, and AirPlay\n- **Storage**: Core Data for play history and progress tracking\n- **Deployment**: App Store ready with bundled sample content\n\n## 🚀 Implementation Status\n\n### ✅ COMPLETED FEATURES\n**Core App Foundation**\n- ✅ SwiftUI app structure with iOS/macOS cross-platform support\n- ✅ Episode data model with complete metadata for all 360 episodes\n- ✅ Prestige system with animated episode resets and progress tracking\n\n**Audio Engine \u0026 Media Integration**\n- ✅ Professional AVFoundation audio manager with background playback\n- ✅ Lock screen controls with custom generated episode artwork\n- ✅ AirPlay, CarPlay, and Bluetooth audio support\n- ✅ Sleep timer with smooth fade-out functionality\n- ✅ Enhanced playback speeds (0.5x-3x) with special mode detection\n\n**User Interface \u0026 Animation**\n- ✅ Liquid glass UI with ultra-thin material backgrounds\n- ✅ Hero transitions with matched geometry effects between screens\n- ✅ Professional SF Symbol animations and haptic feedback\n- ✅ Native iOS progress slider with functional seek controls\n- ✅ Brutalist monochrome design with proper dark mode support\n\n**Data \u0026 Cloud Integration**\n- ✅ Complete CloudKit integration for cross-device sync\n- ✅ Real statistics tracking with actual listening data\n- ✅ Play history with timestamped session logging\n- ✅ Smart episode completion tracking (85% rule)\n- ✅ Streak calculation based on consecutive listening days\n\n**Native iOS Features**\n- ✅ Proper sheet presentation with corner radius and materials\n- ✅ Full accessibility support with VoiceOver labels and hints\n- ✅ Background audio session management with interruption handling\n- ✅ App Store compliance with bundled sample episode\n\n### 📋 FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS\n**Advanced Features**\n- 🔮 Transcript search integration with embedding API\n- 🔮 Guest search functionality with frequent guest filters\n- 🔮 TownTuner Wrapped annual statistics with sharing\n- 🔮 Vodka bottle clicker mini-game in credits screen\n\n**Platform Extensions**\n- 🔮 iOS widget showing current episode and progress\n- 🔮 Apple Watch companion app with big shuffle button\n- 🔮 Siri Shortcuts for voice control integration\n- 🔮 CSV export for comprehensive data analysis\n\n## Unique Features\n\n- **Vodka Bottle Clicker**: Cookie-clicker style mini-game in credits (planned)\n- **TownTuner Wrapped**: Annual stats with both legitimate and satirical metrics (planned)\n- **Guest Search**: Quick access to episodes by frequent guests (planned)\n- **Lifetime History**: 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