Android App Showcase: NPR Podcasts
NPR Podcasts is a simple yet highly useful applications on the Android Market.
It has quite many features,
Search for NPR local stations near your current location. The list will return the stations call letters, frequency, city and state information.
It can also show you approximately where the stations are in Google map.
You can either save the podcasts to listen later or listen to streamed podcasts.
Save your favorite programs and channels for quick access.
The downloaded podcasts are also available in the built-in Music app.
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- NPR local station search
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- Saved Podcasts
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- Download or stream the podcasts
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- Show stations on Google Maps
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- Save your favorite podcast programs/channels
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- Listen to streaming podcast while reading the article summary
The server keeps a list of all podcast RSS feeds and station signs with latitude and longitude information. The data transported to Android app is via PHP/JSON. Very lightweight and efficient.
Current install base as of Jan 23, 2009 is 6139 active users. ^_^
I just got an email from Google that “Your application, NPR Podcasts, is currently one of the top apps in its individual category, and we would like to showcase it on the Android Market website at http://market.android.com.”
Pretty nice I guess!
Thanks for this App. Have been looking for a NPR app for a long time. Does this app support live streaming from various NPR stations?
sorry NPR does not provide direct link to their live streaming yet