BBC iPlayer Now Working On Android Devices Running Ice Cream Sandwich
BBC iPlayer is one of our favorite apps here at theappwhisperer.com and we’re not alone; in the Android Marketplace it has been installed on almost 5,000,000 devices.
If you’re running Ice Cream Sandwich with perhaps your shiny new Galaxy Nexus device, you might have trouble getting this app to work. Talk Android have found a great workaround to help you with this. Take a look below at the instructions and start enjoying BBC iPlayer on your device.
This is what you should do, according to TalkAndroid.com:
- Grab Adobe Flash Player from the Android Market – Link
- Open your Browser and hit the menu key (the three dots in the top right corner) and tap “Request desktop site” to check it.
- Point the browser to www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and the desktop site will open and you will be able to play radio content, as well as live and recorded TV, assuming you’re in the UK.
Please note that you may have to repeat step #2 the next time you do it since Android will remove the check for “Request desktop site” each time the browser closes.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
2 Comments
ollie
It’s hardly a ‘workaround’…..
1. Go to the iplayer website
2. Use a prime, well documented, feature of Andorid (flash support)
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