Side project of mine — posting in case it's useful to anyone here, and I'd genuinely like some feedback.
World Radio plays live radio from across the World, so you pick a country or genre and get the stations for it. Plenty of Australian ones in there. No account, nothing to install, free.
Things that ended up in there, mostly because other apps annoyed me:
- It keeps playing on a locked phone, so next/back work from a car head unit or steering wheel buttons
- No pause button, deliberately — live radio has no paused state, and an accidental pause from a steering wheel ends the session
- Favourites, history and presets are stored on your device, so there's still no account to make
- Install it to your home screen and it behaves like an app — nothing to download from a store, nothing to update
- Driving Mode: oversized next/back buttons and the station name in huge type, for when you're actually in the car
- Surprise Me picks a random station, and quietly tries another one if the first is dead
- It learns which stations are flaky on your connection and stops putting those in front of you
- Reopening picks up the station you left on, and it recovers by itself after a phone call ends or you drop off home wifi mid-song
I'm the solo developer, so it's rough in places. Happy to hear what's broken, missing or just annoying.
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Can't zoom in far enough on map. Lots of sydney stations, but once a station is selected the large box covers all other stations.