Fwd: Calling all iphone developers

[Jesse Stay]

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From: Tom Welch <Wel...@ldschurch.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Subject: Calling all iphone developers
To: Tech <Te...@ldschurch.org>

Many of you may be aware that the Church just launched a new 24 hour a day audio station called “Mormon Channel”.  You can read more about it  by visiting http://radio.lds.org.  In conjunction with this, the Church is developing a “Mormon Channel iPhone application” which will allow users the ability to stream the Mormon Channel to their iPhone.  In addition to the Mormon Channel content, this application will stream magazines, conference talks, and the scriptures.  This project is well underway and we would like to submit it to the iTunes store shortly.  We need your help in the development and testing of this application.  We have setup a wiki page at https://tech.lds.org/wiki/index.php/Mormon_Channel_iPhone_Application where you can learn more about how you can get involved.  Right now we need iPhone developers who can test and debug the application.  We could also use some design help on some of the screens. If you can help participate and can donate time immediately to this project, please let me know ASAP.

In the future, we would like to also have this same application be made available on the following platforms:

• Windows Mobile
• Blackberry
• Palm
• Android
  

If you would like to work on one of these other platforms, please let me know.

Regards,

Tom Welch
Technology Community Manager
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

[Idaho Joe]

As a developer, and a G1 owner, I'd like to offer any assistance I can in the effort to make it available for Android.

-- Joe Grover
Nampa 37th ward, Idaho

[Timothy-Allen Albertson]

i have been unable to get this channel to open, far less stream

my OS is Ubuntu 9.04, ive also got Kubuntu 9.04 and Puppy 4.2

any suggestions?

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[Steven McCown]

I'm just curious why the church is developing a heavy weight app to
listen to LDS radio on cell phones. Most of my phones (with internet
access) already have a media player that can receive streamed media.

Here is a site (http://www.thestreamcenter.com/pda/) that will direct
you to internet radios for the PDA/phones. I just listened to KBOI on
my Motorola Q9m without installing anything extra.

Is the app to be built to meant to handle DRM or do something beyond streaming?

Just curious...

Steve

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[Jesse Stay]

Steve, I imagine the exposure via the iPhone App store is one reason.  It's great exposure, and presence for the Church.  Add to that the social tie-ins, discussion, missionary tools, and more that could be brought into such an app, a default Media Player could never compete.

Jesse

[Steven H. McCown]

I see the marketing motivations for that. Many content sources are looking for social network plugins for that very reason. Still, it would be really nice to have the site also do generic streaming -- at least in the mean time.

Also, for BREW phones (e.g., LG Chocolate) the app-based model may pose a difficulty. BREW apps are architected much differently than we are used to for the PC architectures...in the way that they do resource allocation...

Steve

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From: Jesse Stay <jess...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:46 PM
To: lds...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [LDSOSS] Re: Fwd: Calling all iphone developers

Steve, I imagine the exposure via the iPhone App store is one reason.  It's great exposure, and presence for the Church.  Add to that the social tie-ins, discussion, missionary tools, and more that could be brought into such an app, a default Media Player could never compete.

Jesse

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Steven McCown <steven...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm just curious why the church is developing a heavy weight app to
listen to LDS radio on cell phones.  Most of my phones (with internet
access) already have a media player that can receive streamed media.

Here is a site (http://www.thestreamcenter.com/pda/) that will direct
you to internet radios for the PDA/phones.  I just listened to KBOI on
my Motorola Q9m without installing anything extra.

Is the app to be built to meant to handle DRM or do something beyond streaming?

Just curious...

Steve

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Timothy-Allen Albertson
<cam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have been unable to get this channel to open, far less stream
>
> my OS is Ubuntu 9.04, ive also got Kubuntu 9.04 and Puppy 4.2
>
> any suggestions?
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Idaho Joe <idah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As a developer, and a G1 owner, I'd like to offer any assistance I can in
>> the effort to make it available for Android.
>>
>> -- Joe Grover
>> Nampa 37

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