About one year ago I wrote some integration code for my Android app to
be able to consume data from the BBC Nature Finder. You can find the
blog post, screenshots and a screencast in this old blog:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/07/16/about-android-semantic-web-and-bbc
At the time it wasn't clear to me whether I was fairly using the BBC
service or not, so the integration was not made publicly available; in
any case, after more or less one month I pushed a release of my app with
other features that worked fine and then, for personal reasons, I wasn't
able to keep on working on it with a regular pace for months. I didn't
think of BBC again since at the time the only possible way to reproduce
a video was rendering a web page, and it was not user friendly on a
small screen (see the screencast).
Now I've resumed to work on the app and I should be able to publish
another official release in a matter of one month. Seeing that iPlayer
has been published on Android too, I'd be really interested on resuming
that integration code.
Tonight I tried to install iPlayer to my Android gear, to discover that
it can't be installed outside UK. Well, I knew that BBC doesn't
distribute movies outside UK, but it would make at least sense to let
developers install iPlayer outside UK, so they can work out with
integration issues. I mean, even though I can't see movies, I could be
able to see if my application is able to launch iPlayer pointing it to
the proper contents, and such. Is it possible to ask some official
channel at BBC to make the app installable outside UK?
In the worst case, being my project open source and collaborative, I can
ask for help to some users of mine in UK. But in 2011 it doesn't make
much sense to enforce borders against the web in this way... :-/
And whom at BBC I could ask for confirmation that my app would respect
the BBC terms of service? I wouldn't be happy to see it withdrawn from
the Android Market (especially for doing a thing that I can't see!).
Thanks.
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Fabrizio Giudici - blueBill Mobile
bluebill.tidalwave.it/mobile
java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici
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