The BBC has updated it's iPlayer app for Android, permitting
users to transfer TV shows for offline viewing.
The updated BBC iPlayer Android app will appear in the
Google Play Store later today and it'll be updated in the Amazon App Store in
the coming back days.
The new feature will work on Android devices running the
frozen dessert Sandwich and jelly bean variants of
Google's Android package.
These include the Amazon Kindle eight.9, the Asus Nexus 7 i
and ii, the HTC One, the LG Nexus four, the Samsung Galaxy S2, S3 and S4, the 7-inch
Samsung Galaxy Tab a pair of, the Samsung Google Nexus ten and therefore the
Sony Xperia Z.
Despite their popularity, the Amazon Kindle fire 7 and
Amazon Kindle fire HD 7 aren't in the list. The BBC is currently working with
Amazon to undertake to resolve this.
"70 per cent of Android app users with compatible
devices are able to use this functionality from today – and over the coming
months we will be extending this to include new Android devices also as some
older ones," same David Berlin, senior product manager for TV &
iPlayer Mobile Applications at BBC Future Media.
"We appreciate the frustration the Android community
has been experiencing in the time it has taken to deliver this desired feature,
and i'm more than happy that we've currently been able to deliver it."
The BBC has long-faced vehement criticism from Android users
since it intercalary video downloads to the iOS iPlayer app in Gregorian
calendar month 2012. At the time, the BBC damned "the security obligations
we had in agreement with our rights holders".
Berlin same
that Android uasers currently have one feature that iOS users do not have - they
will transfer programmers whereas doing other things, which isn't currently
attainable on iOS devices.
Downloads on tablets are top quality by default, however
users have the choice to change between standard and top quality downloads in
the BBC iPlayer app Settings, to vary the transfer time and movie quality on
phones or tablets.