Dec 23, 2012

This Christmas - BBC Plans to Update its Android App - iPlayer

Google Play flooding with apps, has remarkably opened up the market for android app development. Android world is bringing in new and innovative solutions day in and out. With Android device users increasing, various companies are looking to update their apps for Android phones.

Recently, BBC done the same thing. This popular news media broke the information that the firm is planning to update its iPlayer app for android. It is starting with improving the video quality over W-Fi for Android phones within the coming few weeks.

With the two tier approach to Android, BBC has promised to deal with the problems of lower quality video streaming for the less powerful handsets but high quality video for the latest devices like Google Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy S3, which are good at rendering quality video.

The first stage of the multi-layered plan to appease the Android community will come before Christmas "with a new high quality media encode" when accessing the all-conquering on-demand app through Wi-Fi networks, the BBC wrote on its blog.

The Head of BBC iPlayer, Dave Price wrote - “Rather than use the one-size-fits-all approach that has worked on iOS we are grouping Android devices into classifications based on their capabilities.”

BBC is also firm to support Android Jelly Bean 4.2 before Christmas, giving users a better experience on tablets like Nexus 7 and Nexus 10.

Overall, the big changes of Android app programming will be carried out for iPlayer to give Google phone users the same quality video as enjoyed by iOS users.

BBC also posted  - Into 2013, we'll priorities the most popular Android devices so we can deliver the best experience for the biggest audience. As you can see this is just the beginning.

Resource: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/12/android_update.html

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