diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fefc6ff..468395b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ target_*/
 .flatpak-builder/
 app/
 repo/
+
+# Files configured by meson
+podcasts-gtk/src/config.rs
+podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 93fd27d..82f6b02 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ flatpak:
 
     script:
         - flatpak-builder --stop-at=${FLATPAK_MODULE} app ${MANIFEST_PATH}
-        # https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts/issues/55
-        # Force regeneration of gresources regardless of artifacts chage
-        - flatpak-builder --run app ${MANIFEST_PATH} glib-compile-resources --sourcedir=podcasts-gtk/resources/ podcasts-gtk/resources/resources.xml
 
         # Build the flatpak repo
         - flatpak-builder --run app ${MANIFEST_PATH} meson --prefix=/app ${CONFIGURE_ARGS} _build
@@ -29,13 +26,10 @@ flatpak:
         - |
           xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1024x768x24" \
               flatpak-builder --run \
-              --env=APP_ID="org.gnome.PodcastsDevel" \
-              --env=LOCALEDIR="./podcasts-gtk/po" \
-              --env=VERSION="0.0.0" \
-              --env=CARGO_HOME="target/cargo-home" \
-              --env=CARGO_TARGET_DIR="target_test/" \
+              --env=CARGO_HOME="${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/target/cargo-home" \
+              --env=CARGO_TARGET_DIR="${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/target/" \
               app ${MANIFEST_PATH} \
-              cargo test --color=always -j 1 -- --test-threads=1
+              ninja -C _build test
 
         # Create a flatpak bundle
         - flatpak-builder --finish-only app ${MANIFEST_PATH}
@@ -92,6 +86,10 @@ rustfmt:
   stage: "lint"
   script:
     - rustup component add rustfmt
+    # Create blank versions of our configured files
+    # so rustfmt does not yell about non-existent files or completely empty files
+    - echo -e "" >> podcasts-gtk/src/config.rs
+    - echo -e "" >> podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs
     - rustc -Vv && cargo -Vv
     - cargo fmt --version
     - cargo fmt --all -- --color=always --check
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 7fc5e17..140bad4 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ endif
 
 application_id = 'org.gnome.Podcasts@0@'.format(profile)
 i18n = import('i18n')
+gnome = import('gnome')
 
 subdir('podcasts-gtk/po')
 podir = join_paths (meson.source_root (), 'podcasts-gtk', 'po')
@@ -64,22 +65,22 @@ datadir = get_option('datadir')
 subdir('podcasts-gtk/resources')
 
 cargo_script = find_program('scripts/cargo.sh')
+test_script = find_program('scripts/test.sh')
 
-cargo_release = custom_target('cargo-build',
-                        build_always_stale: true,
-                        output: ['gnome-podcasts'],
-                        install: true,
-                        install_dir: podcasts_bindir,
-                        console: true,
-                        command: [cargo_script,
-                                  '@CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@',
-                                  '@OUTPUT@',
-                                  podcasts_localedir,
-                                  application_id,
-                                  podcasts_version + version_suffix,
-                                  profile
-                                 ])
+subdir('podcasts-data/src')
+subdir('podcasts-downloader/src')
+subdir('podcasts-gtk/src')
 
-run_target('release', command: ['scripts/release.sh',
-                                meson.project_name() + '-' + podcasts_version
-                               ])
+meson.add_dist_script(
+  'scripts/dist-vendor.sh',
+  meson.source_root(),
+  join_paths(meson.build_root(), 'meson-dist', meson.project_name() + '-' + podcasts_version)
+)
+
+test(
+  'cargo-test',
+  test_script,
+  args: meson.build_root(),
+  workdir: meson.source_root(),
+  timeout: 3000
+)
diff --git a/org.gnome.Podcasts.json b/org.gnome.Podcasts.json
index 9c57b70..3093fc9 100644
--- a/org.gnome.Podcasts.json
+++ b/org.gnome.Podcasts.json
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
         },
         {
             "name" : "gnome-podcasts",
+            "builddir" : "true",
             "buildsystem" : "meson",
             "sources" : [
                 {
diff --git a/org.gnome.PodcastsDevel.json b/org.gnome.PodcastsDevel.json
index c169b57..5e25ab7 100644
--- a/org.gnome.PodcastsDevel.json
+++ b/org.gnome.PodcastsDevel.json
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
         {
             "name" : "gnome-podcasts",
             "buildsystem" : "meson",
+            "builddir" : "true",
             "config-opts" : [ "-Dprofile=development" ],
             "sources" : [
                 {
diff --git a/podcasts-data/src/meson.build b/podcasts-data/src/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc33b47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/podcasts-data/src/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+data_sources = files(
+  'models/episode.rs',
+  'models/mod.rs',
+  'models/new_episode.rs',
+  'models/new_show.rs',
+  'models/new_source.rs',
+  'models/show.rs',
+  'models/source.rs',
+  'database.rs',
+  'dbqueries.rs',
+  'errors.rs',
+  'feed.rs',
+  'lib.rs',
+  'opml.rs',
+  'parser.rs',
+  'pipeline.rs',
+  'schema.rs',
+  'utils.rs',
+)
diff --git a/podcasts-downloader/src/meson.build b/podcasts-downloader/src/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..120d95a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/podcasts-downloader/src/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+downloader_sources = files(
+  'downloader.rs',
+  'errors.rs',
+  'lib.rs'
+)
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/Cargo.toml b/podcasts-gtk/Cargo.toml
index 787930b..1ec78f0 100644
--- a/podcasts-gtk/Cargo.toml
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["Jordan Petridis <jpetridis@gnome.com>"]
-build = "build.rs"
 name = "podcasts-gtk"
 version = "0.1.0"
 
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/build.rs b/podcasts-gtk/build.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index c8279e6..0000000
--- a/podcasts-gtk/build.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-use std::process::Command;
-
-fn main() {
-    // Rerun the build script when files in the resources folder are changed.
-    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=resources");
-    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=resources/*");
-
-    let out = Command::new("glib-compile-resources")
-        .args(&["--generate", "resources.xml"])
-        .current_dir("resources")
-        .status()
-        .expect("failed to generate resources");
-    assert!(out.success());
-}
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/resources/meson.build b/podcasts-gtk/resources/meson.build
index ee91f08..c46bd00 100644
--- a/podcasts-gtk/resources/meson.build
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/resources/meson.build
@@ -58,4 +58,11 @@ configure_file(
   install_dir: join_paths(datadir,'dbus-1', 'services')
 )
 
+podcasts_resources = gnome.compile_resources(
+  'resources',
+  'resources.xml',
+  gresource_bundle: true,
+  source_dir: meson.current_build_dir()
+)
+
 meson.add_install_script('../../scripts/compile-gschema.py')
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/src/app.rs b/podcasts-gtk/src/app.rs
index df556a8..0e82949 100644
--- a/podcasts-gtk/src/app.rs
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/src/app.rs
@@ -46,23 +46,9 @@ use std::env;
 use std::rc::Rc;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
+use crate::config::{APP_ID, LOCALEDIR};
 use crate::i18n::i18n;
 
-#[rustfmt::skip]
-lazy_static! {
-    pub static ref APP_ID: &'static str = {
-        option_env!("APP_ID").unwrap_or("org.gnome.Podcasts")
-    };
-
-    pub static ref VERSION: &'static str = {
-        option_env!("VERSION").unwrap_or("0.0.1")
-    };
-
-    pub static ref LOCALEDIR: &'static str = {
-        option_env!("LOCALEDIR").unwrap_or("./podcasts-gtk/po")
-    };
-}
-
 /// Creates an action named `name` in the action map `T with the handler `F`
 fn action<T, F>(thing: &T, name: &str, action: F)
 where
@@ -428,10 +414,10 @@ impl App {
     pub(crate) fn run() {
         // Set up the textdomain for gettext
         setlocale(LocaleCategory::LcAll, "");
-        bindtextdomain("gnome-podcasts", *LOCALEDIR);
+        bindtextdomain("gnome-podcasts", LOCALEDIR);
         textdomain("gnome-podcasts");
 
-        let application = gtk::Application::new(*APP_ID, gio::ApplicationFlags::empty())
+        let application = gtk::Application::new(APP_ID, gio::ApplicationFlags::empty())
             .expect("Application initialization failed...");
         application.set_resource_base_path("/org/gnome/Podcasts");
 
@@ -462,7 +448,7 @@ impl App {
         // Weird magic I copy-pasted that sets the Application Name in the Shell.
         glib::set_application_name(&i18n("Podcasts"));
         glib::set_prgname(Some("gnome-podcasts"));
-        gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name(*APP_ID);
+        gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name(APP_ID);
         let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
         ApplicationExtManual::run(&application, &args);
     }
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/src/config.rs.in b/podcasts-gtk/src/config.rs.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7de9911
--- /dev/null
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/src/config.rs.in
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/* config.rs.in
+ *
+ * Copyright 2019 Christopher Davis <brainblasted@disroot.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+pub static APP_ID: &'static str = @APP_ID@;
+pub static VERSION: &'static str = @VERSION@;
+pub static LOCALEDIR: &'static str = @LOCALEDIR@;
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/src/main.rs b/podcasts-gtk/src/main.rs
index ee9db90..0a720dd 100644
--- a/podcasts-gtk/src/main.rs
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/src/main.rs
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ mod stacks;
 mod widgets;
 
 mod app;
+mod config;
 mod headerbar;
 mod prefs;
 
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/src/meson.build b/podcasts-gtk/src/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c02888
--- /dev/null
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/src/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+global_conf = configuration_data()
+global_conf.set_quoted('APP_ID', application_id)
+global_conf.set_quoted('VERSION', podcasts_version + version_suffix)
+global_conf.set_quoted('LOCALEDIR', podcasts_localedir)
+config_rs = configure_file(
+  input: 'config.rs.in',
+  output: 'config.rs',
+  configuration: global_conf
+)
+
+run_command(
+  'cp',
+  config_rs,
+  meson.current_source_dir(),
+  check: true
+)
+
+# include_bytes! only takes a string literal
+resource_conf = configuration_data()
+resource_conf.set_quoted('RESOURCEFILE', podcasts_resources.full_path())
+resource_rs = configure_file(
+  input: 'static_resource.rs.in',
+  output: 'static_resource.rs',
+  configuration: resource_conf
+)
+
+run_command(
+  'cp',
+  resource_rs,
+  meson.current_source_dir(),
+  check: true
+)
+
+podcasts_sources = files(
+  'stacks/content.rs',
+  'stacks/home.rs',
+  'stacks/mod.rs',
+  'stacks/populated.rs',
+  'stacks/show.rs',
+  'widgets/aboutdialog.rs',
+  'widgets/appnotif.rs',
+  'widgets/base_view.rs',
+  'widgets/empty.rs',
+  'widgets/home_view.rs',
+  'widgets/mod.rs',
+  'widgets/player.rs',
+  'widgets/show.rs',
+  'widgets/show_menu.rs',
+  'widgets/shows_view.rs',
+  'app.rs',
+  'headerbar.rs',
+  'i18n.rs',
+  'main.rs',
+  'manager.rs',
+  'prefs.rs',
+  'settings.rs',
+  'utils.rs'
+)
+
+cargo_release = custom_target('cargo-build',
+                        build_by_default: true,
+                        input: [
+                                data_sources,
+                                downloader_sources,
+                                podcasts_sources,
+                               ],
+                        output: ['gnome-podcasts'],
+                        install: true,
+                        install_dir: podcasts_bindir,
+                        console: true,
+                        depends: podcasts_resources,
+                        command: [cargo_script,
+                                  '@SOURCE_ROOT@',
+                                  '@OUTPUT@',
+                                  meson.build_root(),
+                                  profile
+                                 ])
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs b/podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs.in
similarity index 94%
rename from podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs
rename to podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs.in
index c7fad23..a6c303e 100644
--- a/podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/src/static_resource.rs.in
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ use glib::Bytes;
 pub(crate) fn init() -> Result<(), Error> {
     // load the gresource binary at build time and include/link it into the final
     // binary.
-    let res_bytes = include_bytes!("../resources/resources.gresource");
+    let res_bytes = include_bytes!(@RESOURCEFILE@);
 
     // Create Resource it will live as long the value lives.
     let gbytes = Bytes::from_static(res_bytes.as_ref());
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/aboutdialog.rs b/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/aboutdialog.rs
index f29ce06..1e35841 100644
--- a/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/aboutdialog.rs
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/aboutdialog.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 //
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
-use crate::app::{APP_ID, VERSION};
+use crate::config::{APP_ID, VERSION};
 use gtk;
 use gtk::prelude::*;
 
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ pub(crate) fn about_dialog(window: &gtk::ApplicationWindow) {
     ];
 
     let dialog = gtk::AboutDialog::new();
-    dialog.set_logo_icon_name(*APP_ID);
+    dialog.set_logo_icon_name(APP_ID);
     dialog.set_comments(i18n("Podcast Client for the GNOME Desktop.").as_str());
     dialog.set_copyright("© 2017, 2018 Jordan Petridis");
     dialog.set_license_type(gtk::License::Gpl30);
     dialog.set_modal(true);
-    dialog.set_version(*VERSION);
+    dialog.set_version(VERSION);
     dialog.set_program_name(&i18n("Podcasts"));
     dialog.set_website("https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Podcasts");
     dialog.set_website_label(i18n("Learn more about GNOME Podcasts").as_str());
diff --git a/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/empty.rs b/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/empty.rs
index 5087078..66633b3 100644
--- a/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/empty.rs
+++ b/podcasts-gtk/src/widgets/empty.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 //
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
-use crate::app::APP_ID;
+use crate::config::APP_ID;
 use gtk::{self, prelude::*};
 use std::ops::Deref;
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ impl Default for EmptyView {
         let view: gtk::Box = builder.get_object("empty_view").unwrap();
         let image: gtk::Image = builder.get_object("image").unwrap();
         image.set_from_icon_name(
-            format!("{}-symbolic", *APP_ID).as_str(),
+            format!("{}-symbolic", APP_ID).as_str(),
             gtk::IconSize::__Unknown(256),
         );
         EmptyView(view)
diff --git a/scripts/cargo.sh b/scripts/cargo.sh
index bbe335a..ad47db3 100755
--- a/scripts/cargo.sh
+++ b/scripts/cargo.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 
 set -ex
 
-export CARGO_HOME=$1/target/cargo-home
-export LOCALEDIR="$3"
-export APP_ID="$4"
-export VERSION="$5"
-export PROFILE="$6"
+export OUTPUT="$2"
+export CARGO_TARGET_DIR="$3"/target
+export CARGO_HOME="$CARGO_TARGET_DIR"/cargo-home
+export PROFILE="$4"
 
 TARGET=debug
 ARGS=()
@@ -22,4 +21,5 @@ if test -d vendor; then
     ARGS+=('--frozen')
 fi
 
-cargo build ${ARGS[@]} -p podcasts-gtk && cp $1/target/${TARGET}/podcasts-gtk $2
+cargo build ${ARGS[@]} --manifest-path="$1"/Cargo.toml -p podcasts-gtk &&
+cp "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR"/${TARGET}/podcasts-gtk "$OUTPUT"
diff --git a/scripts/dist-vendor.sh b/scripts/dist-vendor.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e28f21d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dist-vendor.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+export SOURCE_ROOT="$1"
+export DIST="$2"
+
+cd "$SOURCE_ROOT"
+mkdir "$DIST"/.cargo
+cargo vendor | sed 's/^directory = ".*"/directory = "vendor"/g' > $DIST/.cargo/config
+# Move vendor into dist tarball directory
+mv vendor "$DIST"
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c1a7d69..0000000
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-VERSION=$1
-DEST=${MESON_BUILD_ROOT}
-DIST=$DEST/dist/$VERSION
-
-
-cd "${MESON_SOURCE_ROOT}"
-mkdir -p $DIST
-
-# copying files
-cp -rf podcasts-data $DIST
-cp -rf podcasts-gtk $DIST
-cp -rf podcasts-downloader $DIST
-cp Cargo.toml $DIST
-cp Cargo.lock $DIST
-cp meson.build $DIST
-cp meson_options.txt $DIST
-cp podcasts.doap $DIST
-cp LICENSE $DIST
-cp README.md $DIST
-cp -rf screenshots $DIST
-cp -rf scripts $DIST
-
-#cargo vendor
-mkdir $DIST/.cargo
-cargo vendor | sed 's/^directory = ".*"/directory = "vendor"/g' > $DIST/.cargo/config
-cp -rf vendor $DIST/
-
-# packaging
-cd $DEST/dist
-tar -cJvf $VERSION.tar.xz $VERSION
diff --git a/scripts/test.sh b/scripts/test.sh
index 5d4a9bd..35ed241 100755
--- a/scripts/test.sh
+++ b/scripts/test.sh
@@ -1,40 +1,9 @@
 #! /usr/bin/sh
 
 set -o errexit
-set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-export MANIFEST_PATH="org.gnome.PodcastsDevel.json"
-export FLATPAK_MODULE="gnome-podcasts"
-export CONFIGURE_ARGS="-Dprofile=development"
-# export DBUS_ID="org.gnome.PodcastsDevel"
-# export BUNDLE="org.gnome.Podcasts.Devel.flatpak"
-# export RUNTIME_REPO="https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo"
+export CARGO_TARGET_DIR="$1/target/"
+export CARGO_HOME="$CARGO_TARGET_DIR/cargo-home"
 
-flatpak-builder --stop-at=${FLATPAK_MODULE} --force-clean app ${MANIFEST_PATH}
-# https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts/issues/55
-# Force regeneration of gresources regardless of artifacts chage
-flatpak-builder --run app ${MANIFEST_PATH} glib-compile-resources --sourcedir=podcasts-gtk/resources/ podcasts-gtk/resources/resources.xml
-
-# Build the flatpak repo
-flatpak-builder --run app ${MANIFEST_PATH} meson --prefix=/app ${CONFIGURE_ARGS} build
-flatpak-builder --run \
-    --env=CARGO_HOME="target/cargo-home" \
-    --env=CARGO_TARGET_DIR="target_test/" \
-    --env=RUSTFLAGS="" \
-    app ${MANIFEST_PATH} \
-    ninja -C build
-
-# Run the tests
-xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1024x768x24" \
-    flatpak-builder --run \
-    --env=CARGO_HOME="target/cargo-home" \
-    --env=CARGO_TARGET_DIR="target_test/" \
-    --env=RUSTFLAGS="" \
-    app ${MANIFEST_PATH} \
-    cargo test -j 1 -- --test-threads=1 --nocapture
-
-# Create a flatpak bundle
-# flatpak-builder --finish-only app ${MANIFEST_PATH}
-# flatpak build-export repo app
-# flatpak build-bundle repo ${BUNDLE} --runtime-repo=${RUNTIME_REPO} ${DBUS_ID}
+cargo test -j 1 -- --test-threads=1 --nocapture