RadioShake for Wear OS — 45,000+ live radio stations

[Hiten Patel]

Hi all - submitting RadioShake for Wear OS to the community for closed testing.
Standalone Wear OS app, free, no ads, no account, no tracking. Browse
radio-browser.info's full catalogue of 45,000+ live radio stations from
your wrist, with a Now Playing tile for at-a-glance control. v1.0.6 in
closed testing.

What to test:
- Tap any station — audio should buffer and play within 1-3s
- Now Playing tile (swipe right from watch face)
- Station list scrolling on round/square watch faces

No accounts, promo codes, or test data required.

Opt in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.radioshake.wear

Built solo. Install + keep for 14 days + leave a Play review and you
directly unlock production rollout for the app — much appreciated.
Feedback / bug reports: hi...@hiten-patel.co.uk

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I have become a tester of your app and installed it, can you in return test mine please, I also need to reach the 
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.liamo.physicsfling

While testing your app:
I noticed there was no New Zealand radio stations, as a New Zealander myself, its kind of sad because I want to listen to my country's stations.
Also: the icons for each station were taking a long time to load on bluetooth to phone watch connection, i recommend loading them at a lower res to save bandwidth and to have them load faster if possible, this also affected the radio load time, as I suspect it was still trying to download 100+ radio station's icons, which slowed down the initial loading of the radio station's sound broadcast.

Great and genuinally useful and functional app! Well done!

[Hiten Patel]

Thank you, for the valuable feedback. 

If you are based in UK / EU, there are unfortunately laws that prohibit radio stations from other countries, so I had to restrict these to purely the country the user is in. But there is a workaround for the mobile / tablet app where the user can add custom feeds from https://www.radio-browser.info/, which could bypass this and can add any country’s stations. As you highlighted for wearOS - I will apply a sync feature from mobile app in upcoming updates. Appreciate the suggestions on icons, will definitely try and look to improve these.

I have tested your watch and it works fine on for me, and very fun and addictive! 😊 

I have tried as 60 FPS and its smooth and buttery, vibrations and gyroscope gravity works as expected too. 

Screen size is fine, but on settings I feel it would benefit from a small scroll bar on the right. 

Would also be nice if "reset to default" showed a confirmation instead of going back a screen, the user may want to continue updating, i.e. change colour, gravity, etc.

Hopefully that's useful enough feedback, keep up the good work!

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