Silver Rain APP

Creating a user-friendly mobile app with the ability to share and to play live broadcasts, to view news feed, daily schedule, radio contacts (map, location, how to get there), events list and its detailed page. The mobile app should have a possibility to watch replays on TV-Radio section.

It is a creative and memorable project. We share the views of Silver Rain Radio. We got so attached to the station itself during our teamwork. Now our day starts with their morning broadcast. A high-quality product is made when working with a client develops into partnership and the developer is an active user of his own output. That’s exactly what happened. We created a high-quality product and became regular listeners of the radio station.

The app was changing in course of the development process. Its use case implies live broadcasts, fast access to reading short news blocks, calls on the air. The media player was our priority.

As a result of studying many counterparts and testing various options, the following criteria were identified:

• big Run button for the player
• convenient placement of the associated buttons
• the player should be placed on the device screen in such a way as to operate it with one hand

We decided to give up the standard news feed functionality so that the user could get a one-touch access to the news feed and its detailed texts without interrupting the main use case. Ultimately, the media player is a big bright button in the center of the screen with progress bar around it. This allows the user to play and pause broadcasts no matter the hand position. The user can access any necessary feature that being news feed, events list, calls and messages on the air, in one-touch. The main use case is not interrupted.

From now on almost every day begins with discussing App Store reviews, user suggestions and comments on possible shortcomings. We believe there is nothing better like the whole team taking such a lively interest in the project.