Y-Radio for BlackBerry 10 passed review

Now that was quick. The application review is done and Y-Radio is now available for download in BlackBerry World.

Download Y-Radio, YLE Radio application for BlackBerry 10!

Y-Radio BB10 version review issues

Don't know what the tester is doing but I've got it back now twice with a nice one-liner saying basically "No sound". Work for me so I wonder if the tester is doing something stupid like not having network connection ?

Anyway, submitted one now that complains loudly (in RED) if device is off-line, lets see if that helps.

YLE Radio application for BlackBerry 10

Y-Radio coming to BlackBerry 10

An itch needed some scratching that resulted in me finally making and YLE Radio application for BlackBerry 10 devices. Goes by the name Y-Radio as the Jolla version.

This version is pretty basic, just a list of channels, play/stop button and quick access to channel web site(s).

Here is a quick intro video to the app:


Should be available in BlackBerry World as soon as review is done.

New Y-Radio release, version 1.0.7

A quick look at what's new in Y-Radio 1.0.7, the Ylesradio radio application for Jolla devices.

Minor Y-Radio update, version 1.0.5

Related to the previous post about the DockedPanel, I made some small UI adjustments to Y-Radio (and it is already trough Jolla QA, in only 2 hours, that was fast!)

Made the main view a bit more compact and made the play/pause control look more nice.
The connecting and buffering progress bar is now above the control (but for some reason the Audio element won't give proper buffering information for rtsp streams, sigh). Also the main page title is now used for the radio channel name (and will only display Y-Radio when no channel has been selected)

Y-Radio main view changes

Also I made the program view a bit more compact by showing the program details in the list instead of in a dialog, makes it much easier to browse.

Program view

There are some other small thing in there, a bit nicer cover and some text size and color adjustments. Enjoy!

Y-Radio works again!

Finally got some spare time to look into it again. The thing is, YLE decided to stop offering icecast streams that worked perfectly and instead offers only RTSP and HLS streams now. At the time, the multimedia stack on Jolla had problems playing back RTSP streams (choppy sound) and HLS support didn't exist at all. So nothing I could do about it at that time.

I had already started to look into how on earth you could use my own private copy of gstreamer to overcome these issues (as direct usage of gstreamer is a no-no for harbour apps at this time), but luckily the summer update fixed RTSP playback (and almost the HLS support, but not quite, probably this bug) and Y-Radio is now fixed as much as I can fix it.

At this time only low quality RTSP streams are supported as the HLS support is buggy, it won't reload the m3u playlist. But if I can figure out how to use gstreamer without using the system gstreamer, then we can do proper shit! (and add such nice things as an Equalizer for example)

Available now in Openrepos and hopefully soon in the official Jolla store (waiting for QA right now)

Y-Radio problems

Well, YLE did the stupidest thing ever around 1 of May. They removed their shoutcast streams and now offer only RTSP and HLS streams. Using AAC. And guess what Y-Radio uses? That is right, the shoutcast streams.

And the RTSP streams, that work perfectly fine on desktop, fail on Jolla as various gstreamer modules are missing won't play the streams properly.

And you are not allowed to add gstreamer modules for harbour releases.

Sigh...

I'm trying to figure out something, but for now Y-Radio is broken. Sorry about that.

Y-Radio updated, new icon and Facebook page!

I finally got Y-Radio update in harbour, already a couple of weeks ago (QA approved April 8th). New features include:

• All available YLE Radio channels now available and nicely grouped
• For channels that offer it, program information (Note: this uses the undocumented API still, so it might have issues from time to time)
•  Channel information with quick links to various on-line service the radio channel offer (Twitter, YouTube, etc)
• Preliminary translations to Finnish and Swedish
• Major internal changes
• And Y-Radio is now on Facebook

Channel list

Program details

Program information

Also a very helpfull Jolla community member offered to create a much nicer icon for the application. This version does not use it yet, but the next update will have it. But take a look at this, awesome isn't it ?!

New Y-Radio icon

Y-Radio update coming soon

Yes, I know, Y-Radio is missing some of the more obscure YLE channels. Development version (and version on openrepos) includes all channels.

Ski vacation and work before and after that (plus being sick) has take most my time, but an update will be pushed to the Harbour soonish. I'd like to get a couple of feature done first.

Y-Radio updated

First version has an White Screen of Death issue because of a missed dependency on qt5-qtdeclarative-import-xmllistmodel that even QA didn't catch as it is needed by the terminal app that they use for doing installations. So sorry about that.

More channels! Yay

A fixed version has been uploaded to Harbour yesterday as is waiting for QA. And if you are in a hurry you can always get the latest version from openrepos.

This update contains some other updates too:

• Visual changes, use different colors for artist/song
• Fix issues with changing stream quality of currently selected channel (It didn't change)
• More radio channels added. (Yes, I know some strange area Radio Suomi streams are missing. Will be added. Soon. Or scratch that itch yourself and post a patch.)

Different highlights

What about the next version ? These are work in progress, coming soon:

• Daily program information
• Channels details
• News feeds

Y-Radio, my first application for Jolla

My first application for Jolla is starting to get into shape. All basic functionality is there ready for first release. Nothing fancy, just an YLE Radio player with support for current/next song information (for channels that supply that information).

Current features:

• Front page display current channel information
• Current song, with artist image, if available
• Next songs
• Channel page with most YLE Radio channels
• Cover page has Play/Pause

Planned features:

• Daily program information
• News feeds from channels
• Quick access to favourite channels
• Played songs archive
• Favourite songs marking
• More song/artist details
• Calendar event integration
• And when usage of gstreamer is allowed in Harbour, Equalizer (+any other interesting audio filter that might be available)
• Anything else ?

 Should be ready for Harbour submission in a day or two. If you would like to beta test, let me know.

My first ever J2ME app, Radio X3M, submitted to Nokia Store QA!

Yep, I did it. My first real J2ME app. And it even works. Now hoping QA does its thing to get it out there.

Oh, you are wondering what it is ? A it's dedicated YLE Radio X3M application for listening to the radio streams offered by the Finnish broadcast company of their Swedish speaking youth radio channel, including display of currently playing song, the program for today and also their news feed. As a added bonus it displays the currently playing artists image. For now it's only for the full touch Asha phones.

Test version screenshot, final is a bit different

YLE already offers apps for the Top-3, Android, WP and iPhone, but they don't seem to care for other devices, so I decided to do something about that.