So my frustration with my Podmic USB was that if i connect it to my phone, record something, i have to then unplug it to listen to it from the phone speakers.
Yes, i could plug headphones into the mic but i don't want to use headphone. I use my mic quickly and lightweight - i want to use the mic as input and keep phone speakers as the output.
Couldn't find anything that would help me with this, so i ended up building an entire audio production suite app for Android.
You can explicitly select the mic as the input and the phone speaker as the output.
On top of that you can edit and mix tracks together. Currently the editing functionality is pretty basic but will be expanding on it soon.
This was a major frustration for my use-case of the mic - solved!
You can use the app for free with advanced functionality being paid as this took a lot of work.
Though i'd share - hopefully this helps people in similar situations
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uaua.audiomonitorrecorder