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September 26, 2012
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Podcast-Type App Development

  • September 26, 2012
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This may be beyond the scope of what is possible, but I would like to develop an app that would allow downloading of company videos to the device.

The objective being some of our videos are helpful on jobsites, but our customers don't always have internet/data access. If they could select from a list of videos to be downloaded, then have the capability to remove them from the device as well. That would be ideal.


You might ask why not just make a web page and have them available for download, then the user could just drop them onto their device? The problem there is that we need to have an interface to show more detailed descriptions of the videos and would like to control the look of the interface.

My thought was a podcast-type app that is dedicated to our video content.

Could someone possibly point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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Inspiring
September 26, 2012

I don't see why you couldn't do this.  I am currently streaming video from our servers in to my app.  You could just download and save the video on the devices local storage and call the videos from there.

It's definitely doable.

Known Participant
September 26, 2012

That is exactly what I would like to do.


However, are there limitations as to downloading to the device? Could you control the "management" from within the app? Meaning a video could be downloaded/removed from within the app?

I could see how to do the streaming part, but the downloading is what really puzzles me...

Inspiring
September 26, 2012

Yes... I've already tested this with PDF files.  I was able to save them and delete them.

If I'm not mistaken .. you can Add and Delete files...  you cant delete a video that wasnt added via your app.  But anything you app adds you can remove.

Kind of like how Magazine apps work. You can download the issue to the device and remove it whenever you want.