A cross-platform iOS and Android app supporting media access and a more direct listener experience.
An iOS and Android media app contribution, representative of our work on audio and streaming mobile apps.
Radio and streaming apps have one job: get audio playing quickly and keep it playing. Anything between the listener and the sound — load times, awkward players, confusing navigation — is a reason to switch apps. WVFV needed an iOS and Android experience built around that single truth.
We contributed to iOS and Android builds focused on a fast path to playback and reliable background audio. Native players handle streaming so the app behaves correctly with the lock screen, Bluetooth, and external audio devices. Navigation is tight — listeners hit play in the first screen and move from there.
Here's how we thought about the implementation, the choices we made, and how we delivered it—without sharing anything that would compromise client privacy.
Made "tap to listen" the first action in the app, with no intro friction.
Used native audio frameworks on iOS and Android for proper background, lock-screen, and Bluetooth behavior.
Kept the navigation model simple — live, on-demand, settings — so listeners don't have to learn it.
Handled weak-network conditions gracefully so the stream recovers instead of failing silently.
Listener and session data stay with the station, but time-to-playback and stream reliability improved materially.
