NPR News Android app review
Price : Free
Version : 1.1 RC1 Battery
Great news – NPR news is now available for Android too and it is a little better than the iPhone version because it can run in the background.
What
According to NPR
NPR was introduced to Android, an open source platform from the Open Handset AllianceTM, when GoogleTM employee, developer and avid NPR fan Michael Frederick approached NPR’s Mobile team with an offer to build an NPR app. Because Google employees are allowed to donate 20% of their time to any one project, Frederick offered to build an NPR mobile app for Android. NPR’s app for Android will be available soon for download in Android MarketTM.
Highlights of the NPR News app for Android:
· Backgrounding. The NPR News app for Android allows backgrounding, so that users can click to listen to audio and then toggle between applications as the audio is playing. It also uses open source code, allowing developers to iterate and improve the app in the future.
· Listen and Read. Allows users to listen to programs and read news at the same time.
· Extensive Topics section. News section showcases NPR’s top 10-20 topics of the day ranging from Science to Books to World News.
· NPR station listening choices. Easy to find and bookmark more than 600 favorite NPR stations and hundreds of station on-demand streams. Live station streaming to launch in Spring 2010.
· Playlist. Bookmark favorite programs to play later.
You could browse into any radio station and listen to their programs as podcasts. Now because it is in Android, you can read articles while listening to a program. Come Spring 2010, Android users should be able to tune in to live radio stations. Now, that would be something, wouldn’t it?
Here are some screenshots.
Screenshot for selecting stations:
Usefulness: If you listen to NPR, don’t even think twice.
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